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Family: Everyday Storie
About the Miracle
by Samantha Glen
Pesaresi, publishedThy Prima
Press.

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In New York City, everybody
from the garbage-truck driver
to the museum director to the
guy on the street who wants to
sell you "a genuine Rolex for
just $10" is not what he ap-
pears to be. He is really an ac-
tor.
So, too, at least 10 million
"writers" are out there — men
and women who, until that
glorious day when they are fi-
nallydiscovered, spend their
lives making cole slaw or prac-
ticing law. Invariably, they're
the kind of people who use
"commence" instead of "be-
gin," and say "in my own per-
sonal opinion."
Of course, even those of us
who know little about theatri-
cal technique can recognize
the brilliance of a Robert Du-
vall or Daniel Day-Lewis versus
some bonehead named Suede
who got a bit part in Godzilla
Eats Utah because he happens
to have an uncle directing the
film.
Similarly, you don't need a

tifim to

ow that Charleickens

was a better wrir than Jackie
Collins.
Which brings me to Family,
a new collection of stories that
contains a curious mix of
Robert Duvall and Suede,
Charles Dickens and Jackie
Collins.
Sometimes, the stories are
breathtaking. A case in point is
"I Remember Allison," Shan-
non Elaine Denny's gentle tale
of the death of her infant
daughter. In this short piece
Ms. Denny has managed
something remarkable: She
tells a sorrowful story
without becoming
maudlin, and with such
tenderness it's impossi-
ble not to be moved to
tears.
I held my [stillborn]
daughter, wrapped in a
blanket of pink Allison
seemed to have no
weight, but I could
smell her scent — a
mysterious essence of
baby "She smells just
like a rose," I whispered
to my mom. "Just like a
rose."
There are some other

yew well-ten and com-
pelling storm- here, especially
Sandra IsraeiTS "I Love You,"
which tells of how her small
son's love carried her through
the most difficult times;
Dorothy Vance's "Her Only
Coat," about a poor woman
who trades one of her few pos-
sessions for food for her chil-
dren, Mary Cecilia Waugh's
"Caught in the Crossfire," the
story of three siblings in war-
torn Ireland; and Kenneth
Smith's "Irreplaceable," about
a boy who accidentally breaks
his mother's precious vase only
to have her comfort, not scold,