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Light Years

Light Years

A Memoir

by Le Anne Schreiber

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appears in Fishing.

In this searching memoir, Le Anne Schreiber explores the shifts of perspective that accompany a growing intimacy with death. Deeply moving, graced with subtle intelligence and humor, Light Years looks mortality in the eye and stares it down. In the background are three deaths occurring over five yearsthose of the author's mother, father, and brot...

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appears in Fishing.

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MacLean writes in lean yet lyrical sentences that slow time down; the title novella unfolds like a single, patient cast of a fly line. What works best is the combination of precise outdoor detail and a melancholic account of family, faith, and memory—the fishing scenes function as both action and extended metaphor. The main limitation is tempo: readers who like plot-driven narratives or quick payoff may find long, contemplative passages and repeated landscape description tedious rather than immersive. Other stories in the collection are shorter and sometimes sharper, so skim-and-return works.

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