Just Keep Breathing: Tales of Love and Loss in New York City by David J. Connor


Just Keep Breathing: Tales of Love and Loss in New York City
Title : Just Keep Breathing: Tales of Love and Loss in New York City
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ISBN-10 : 9798556368712
Language : English
Format Type : Paperback
Number of Pages : 158
Publication : Published November 20, 2020

Just Keep Breathing is a series of interconnected short stories that focus on universal themes of love and pain, birth and death, joy and sadness—in an ode to humanity with all of its messy imperfections. Each tale centers upon a distinct character in situations that resonate with readers—an estranged son contacted by his aging father, a pregnant teen leaving a small town behind her, a grieving widower aching for reconnection, a daughter coming to know her deceased parents through their love letters. Together, the stories render a colorful contemporary portrait of New York City through its wonderfully diverse inhabitants. Buy it now! (All proceeds from this book with be donated to the World Wildlife Fund).

Just Keep Breathing: Tales of Love and Loss in New York City Reviews

  • Tim Martin

    I thought this was a great book. It is a set of brief short stories (52 in total-like a deck of cards). Each one is a poignant, touching, funny or tragic human portrait. The remarkable thing about Just Keep Breathing is how it all works as a collection. Connor has a very simple and effective device that is breathtaking in its originality and simplicity. One of the secondary characters from each story is the primary subject of the next one. The result is to build up a level of suspense and accumulate meaning and momentum.

    The book left me contemplating our shared human condition in new and sharply drawn ways. Good things happen to people and bad things do too. We are eternally bound to our unique/diverse individuality as it is expressed through fear, desire, pain or joy - and to the unique individuality of those into whom we collide in life. It is a satisfying book that reveals the deeper meaning of its title through its reading as a whole. I'm looking forward with impatience for Connor's next book.