What Cannot Stay Small Forever by Sean Webb

There is a subtle magic here, an incantatory exactitude, that connects related reminiscences from childhood and elevates them to the level of linked tableaux.  Each “casual” observation is precisely placed or feels so, and the effect is of a scrupulously realistic composite of a particular time, place and person, that’s touched by a palpable universality.  Readers will recognize the moments depicted here.  In these honest spaces, Webb encounters and walks in the shoes of and assesses a younger self.  He speaks for those who have grown up or wish to. It is a heavy aloha, greeting and farewell at once.

–Dore Kiesselbach, Author of Salt Pier and Albatross