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Patrick CottrellContemporary Literature · Fiction
Afternoon Hours of a Hermit
Five years after his youngest brother's death, Dan Moran, a published trans author, is teaching fiction in Brooklyn when a mysterious envelope arrives containing a childhood photo of his deceased brother. Against his better judgment, Dan returns to his childhood home for his brother's memorial, where he is mistaken for another man.
Believing himself a detective, he searches for women who may have been involved with his brother, hoping to understand his own relationship to the past. What he uncovers is the profound distance between who we are and how others see us.