THE SMALLEST OF THE ENTRYWAYS BY CIRSTEN HEMINGWAY

The Smallest of Entryways is a selection of short stories written during the years 1998-2014. In these stories, set in locales as far flung as Paris, Key West, and a highway pit-stop in Montana, Cristen Hemingway Jaynes explores the rejection of the former selves of her characters, brought on by changes in circumstances and relationships that lead to sudden alterations in perspective. The turning points her characters face as they deal with addiction, seclusion and abandonment give them a mild hope that, as John Hemingway points out in his introduction, tell the reader “things about the present that most of us suspect, but that perhaps many of us don’t want to see.