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Besides the Grass Harp there are other stories in this collection:
A Tree or the Night
Children on Their Birthdays
Shut a Final Door
Master Misery
Jug of Silver
Miriam
The Headless Hawk
My Side of the Matter
The thing about Truman Capote is he captures this atmosphere that swirls around my family. In my mother's side the lines that had members who raised me in my youth came from the south, the deep south, the south that talks more Suth'un when it is angry. . .that kinda Suth'un. . . so when I read TC, I'm back in my youth, sitting on a floor, watchin' grown ups (defined as anyone over 7).
His characters make sense to me, and don't trouble me, regardless of flaws, incompleteness or wrong-headedness. They are who they are. We all carry our hurts, usually our whole lives long, hugging them close like beloved teddy bears. Characters who work around self-imposed obstacles are as common as an old shoe. Fictions (dreams) v reality considerations abound, and as it is not a question on which I myself am ready to confidently land an answer, there's a patience waiting in between the words of this story for me.
Still, that said, Of all the stories, Grass Harp was my favorite. Collin, the Talbos, Catherine Creek, the Judge, Ida and her tribe of 15. . .the town. All of it. But most of all that old Grass Harp out beyond the cemetery, telling our stories. . . .
A Tree or the Night
Children on Their Birthdays
Shut a Final Door
Master Misery
Jug of Silver
Miriam
The Headless Hawk
My Side of the Matter
The thing about Truman Capote is he captures this atmosphere that swirls around my family. In my mother's side the lines that had members who raised me in my youth came from the south, the deep south, the south that talks more Suth'un when it is angry. . .that kinda Suth'un. . . so when I read TC, I'm back in my youth, sitting on a floor, watchin' grown ups (defined as anyone over 7).
His characters make sense to me, and don't trouble me, regardless of flaws, incompleteness or wrong-headedness. They are who they are. We all carry our hurts, usually our whole lives long, hugging them close like beloved teddy bears. Characters who work around self-imposed obstacles are as common as an old shoe. Fictions (dreams) v reality considerations abound, and as it is not a question on which I myself am ready to confidently land an answer, there's a patience waiting in between the words of this story for me.
Still, that said, Of all the stories, Grass Harp was my favorite. Collin, the Talbos, Catherine Creek, the Judge, Ida and her tribe of 15. . .the town. All of it. But most of all that old Grass Harp out beyond the cemetery, telling our stories. . . .
