Stealing Away: Stories

Stealing Away combines stories that draw on Revolinski's background as a mid-Westerner with an early life spent in small towns, and his later life as a global traveler. The tales span the globe and yet have a sense of thematic unity. These are stories about relationships and the tensions and underlying currents within them, and how they are affected by the ways we move through the world. There is a sense of impermanence and that those things we take for granted are not necessarily always going to be there. Short story collections don't get the attention they deserve. When done well, as they are in Stealing Away, they bring an experience as satisfying as any novel. The themes that bind Revolinski's stories together, his skill in presenting the familiar and the strange in new ways, make this collection well worth the read.