![]() ![]() Unlike “Smorgasbord,” which finds comedic relief and pleasure in friendship, “Flyboys,” considers the hazards of childhood. The final story, “Flyboys,” follows a trio of young friends. When another family shows the pair an apartment that both the mother and her son love, but cannot afford, the narrator dives into a meditation on the nature of family and home, and what it means to belong. The narrator is visiting rental apartments with his mother, a woman who, despite her elegance, is struggling financially. “Firelight” is a more personal and sentimental piece about the nature of family, and what it means to find a home. After being fired, the newspaper reporter finds himself in a strange situation with the man he pronounced dead. The writer writes an obituary for a local man but soon finds himself out of work when the paper goes to print and the man in question turns out to be very much alive. ![]() The collection begins with the story “Mortals,” which follows a newspaper writer. Many of the stories are darkly humorous and deeply ironic, particularly about the realities of human nature. Tobias Wolff's third collection of short stories, The Night in Question (1996), includes fourteen pieces, which range in subject from family, to war, trauma, poverty, and the violence of everyday life. ![]()
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