Josh Allen

JOSH ALLEN {[email protected]} is an English professor at BYU-Idaho. He holds an MFA in fiction from Old Dominion University. His work has appeared in Sunstone, Irreantum, Juxtaprose, and Cricket.

Mothers, Daughters, Sisters, Wives: Ceaselessly into the Past | Karen Rosenbaum, Mothers, Daughters, Sisters, Wives

Articles/Essays – Volume 49, No. 3

When reading Karen Rosenbaum’s short story collection Mothers, Daughters, Sisters, Wives, I kept thinking about the end of The Great Gatsby and Fitzgerald’s haunting conclusion: “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”So it is with the women who populate Rosenbaum’s fourteen stories in this collection. The past defines them, breathes always within them.