The Other Door

Marvelously crafted, slyly sidestepping the reader'sexpectations, the characters in Karen Heuler's The Other Doorrespond to the unexpected events in their lives, accepting andthen rising to the challenges, no matter how strange. For them,reality requires invention.

In "The Second Coming," the Virgin Mary steps down from herbackyard visitations to join the new incarnation of Christ. In"Like a Piston, Like a Flame" a dancer finds a new way to performafter a freak accident destroys her legs, bu...