Extreme Remedies and Other Stories

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  • Extreme
  • Remedies
  • and
  • Other
  • Stories
  • collects
  • short
  • stories
  • from
  • Helen
  • Hudson's
  • long
  • writing
  • career
  • along
  • with
  • autobiographical
  • pieces
  • that
  • reveal
  • how
  • the
  • concerns
  • in
  • her
  • fiction
  • intertwine
  • with
  • the
  • concerns
  • of
  • her
  • life.
  • The
  • characters
  • in
  • these
  • stories
  • grasp
  • blindly
  • in
  • pursuit
  • of
  • empathy.
  • A
  • retired
  • professor
  • can't
  • find
  • anyone
  • he
  • can
  • speak
  • to
  • of
  • his
  • wife's
  • passing.
  • An
  • architect
  • finds
  • himself
  • confined
  • in
  • a
  • retirement
  • home
  • structured
  • to
  • satisfy
  • his
  • ambition
  • rather
  • than
  • human
  • needs.
  • A
  • compulsive
  • volunteer
  • fails
  • to
  • recognize
  • the
  • plight
  • of
  • one
  • who,
  • in
  • his
  • boorish
  • way,
  • has
  • sought
  • out
  • her
  • care.
  • The
  • struggles
  • of
  • these
  • characters
  • reveal
  • that
  • empathy
  • is
  • as
  • vital
  • to
  • the
  • giver
  • as
  • the
  • receiver,
  • a
  • point
  • brought
  • home
  • in
  • the
  • autobiographical
  • vignettes
  • interspersed throughout.
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