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Reviewed by Pikasho Deka for Readers' Favorite
Short Stories From Faraway Places is a collection of four short stories by Kevin O'Flaherty. An NGO worker from New York City goes to Tucumán, Argentina, to help build a health clinic, only to find himself unwittingly embroiled in the personal lives of two very different women. An Irishman moves to the Basque country to work as an assistant English teacher and inadvertently discovers the trail of the lost treasure of Durango's people from the Spanish Civil War. The friendship between two childhood friends with a shared love for heavy metal music splinters when one of them develops a crush on a manipulative bully. After his wife leaves him for her home country, a man from Chicago travels to Ireland in search of work. Now, he must choose between acting on his selfish desires and becoming a better man.
Kevin O'Flaherty brings four captivating short stories that showcase different choices and their consequences on people's lives. Four Stories From Faraway Places is an absorbing anthology that explores the common underlying theme of change. These tales take protagonists out of their comfort zones and put them into situations and places where they are forced to make choices that have larger implications for those around them. The characters have flaws and vulnerabilities that make them so very human and relatable. Each story has its own surprises in store, and you can never predict how it will end. The relationship dynamics between the characters feel very real, and as a reader, you find yourself completely invested in the characters' fates. I thoroughly enjoyed this collection and highly recommend it to short story readers.