Between Two Worlds

Heining's trauma over his wife's demise explains this book's theme of mortality. Dealing with death. Here, he confronts the heart's chiaroscuro (love's lows and highs), yet ever the rebel, he's done it by fusing different forms (dedication, preface, in memoriam, story, poem, cryptogram puzzles w/answers). Dealing with death. Between Two Worlds is quality over quantity, poignant even if petite...er, poignant except for the author's one momentary Cujo-ilke baring of fangs. Rating: a literary PG.