![]() They all go to a spaghetti dinner in the basement of the local Catholic Church. In "Sisters," a college-age woman staying with her aunt and uncle receives a visit from her sister, a nun. At the close of the story-which has taken up only six pages-the two men are about to go outside into the increasing windstorm to fly kites. ![]() In the book's first story, "Kite and Paint," two men and a woman hold a mostly trivial conversation while waiting for a hurricane to arrive. ![]() ![]() Readers looking for an introduction to minimalism in its most rigorous form could do no better than Robison's first book, the story collection Days (1979). Among those American writers who were originally identified as "minimalists," a group that would include Raymond Carver, Bobbie Ann Mason, Ann Beattie, and Tobias Wolff, Mary Robison may have been the most minimalist of them all-or, to use the word she has said she prefers to describe the narrative/expository strategy employed by these writers, the most radically "subtractionist." ![]()
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