Dislocation

Fiction. The New York Times praised "Margaret Meyers's impressionistic and lovely first collection of stories, Swimming in the Congo, where life along the banks of the Congo River means confronting many disquieting realities." The review notes that "Ms. Meyers, who spent much of her own youth in what is now Zaire, relates... [these stories] with intelligence and restraint, while dipping knowingly into equatorial Africa's political and racial divides." Those same divides underscore the tensions many of the characters in the stories of DISLOCATION experience. In this new collection, Meyers moves effortlessly from Africa, where she revisits some of the themes of her earlier collection, to Renaissance Florence and the contemporary settings of Chicago and an east coast seminary. For those readers who savor the beauty of a well-crafted sentence, Meyers's prose offers endless delights. These stories and characters in all their diversity and subtlety plumb the depths of the heart.