The possibility of magic in everyday life
Amazon.com | FIVE STARS
Kat Ricker's book, with its perfectly sublime title, Something Familiar, reminds us of the possibility of magic on the journey of our familiar, everyday lives. These days, such a book is a welcome departure from the daily dose of death and violence from newspapers and television. It's easy to forget that the intimacy, passion, and power of one person's small actions can touch and change another person in profound ways that aren't easily put into words. These time-stopping experiences always seem to happen when we least expect it. The people in these stories are at first anonymous, and their behaviors routine--riding a bus, or tending hogs on a blistering hot day, or walking through a shop, or simply delivering the mail. The people in her stories are just going about their ordinary business when suddenly a small action, a glance, an object, or a few words from one person to another seem to freeze time and change the course of things in profound ways to the individual, but in such a subtle way that the impact might go completely unnoticed by everyone else. Ricker captures this stealth-level magic in such a way that not only does the reader know that the author has been touched; the reader will be touched as well. This book is a pure gift, sharing the power of even the smallest personal actions in the midst of otherwise familiar lives.
