What Endures

"Funny and serious, with a subtle power that accumulates like a shoplifter adding coat upon coat."—Mark Anthony JarmanA couple adopt a difficult dog and argue over morality.A man abandons his family in the middle of the night and spontaneously takes a flight across the country.A woman is rushed into emergency brain surgery at Christmas time. What Endures represents Pauline Holdstock’s responses to a world evolving at terrifying speed, exposing the absurd, the ridiculous, and the downright disturbing.Ranging from the eerily speculative to the flat-out comic, Holdstock’s stories attempt to discover what it is that saves us, time and again, from despair at ourselves and our world.