Old Girlfriends
Author: David Updike
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Price: $31.99 (Hardcover)
In Old Girlfriends, David Updike (son of late American novelist John Updike) relays 10 short stories driven by male protagonists on love, loss and relationship flaws. While the title story deals with one man’s struggle to move beyond an old flame and understand women, few stories actually deal with the title topic. In Kinds of Love, a man is torn between his wife and child, and churchgoing lover. Last of the Caribs follows a middle-aged man’s affair with a Dane while working in the Caribbean and his concurrent, authentic desire for a Caribbean woman out of reach because of his race.
