Robert Horne
Robert Horne reviews 'An Unknown Sky and Other Stories' by Susan Midalia
Robert Horne
Thursday, 29 November 2012
From the opening page of this her second collection of stories, Susan Midalia propels her uncertain and wavering female character into an alien environment. Enter the concrete world of Moscow airport, its people who think you are simple if you smile at them, its ‘prowling men straight out of gangster movies’, tension as the blank, unblinking woman at immigration ‘held up a rubber stamp for ten, fifteen seconds, and then thumped it down on the passport. Petra felt her legs untighten.
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Published in
December 2012–January 2013, no. 347