
Old Girls and Palm Trees
Old Girls and Palm Trees
Tender, vulnerable stories, stories that go from whimsical to a darker irony in the turn of a phrase, stories that bear down with poignancy and wisdom on the micro geography of our friendships. Pokrass is a maestro of flash fiction. Her access to interiority; our unspeakable thoughts and desires make for a collection on friendship, both witty and tender.
—Frankie McMillan, author of Eddie Sparkle’s Bridal Taxi
Old Girls and Palm Trees by acclaimed flash fiction writer Meg Pokrass is so full of wit, whimsy, and wonder, so full of startlingly fresh images and tender emotion, so full of life, love and loss I found myself reading the book through in one sitting and then reading it again. This amazing hybrid collection of linked mini stories and prose poems—reminiscent of the great Israel Writer Yoel Hoffman’s The Shunra and the Schmetterling—tells the story of the friendship of two old girls reunited in imagination after many years, who kiss the rims of their wine glasses, who glow in the dark, who ride their bicycles all over creation, who propose to their cat and hold each other up while skating on ice. Pokrass reinvents old age as a joyous, lovely ride under the palm trees. Old Girls and Palm Trees shimmers with wisdom and aged beauty.
—Jeff Friedman, author of Broken Signals