Review: 'Ordinary Sins,' by Jim Heynen

With "Ordinary Sins," Jim Heynen, best known for his tiny, plain-spoken stories about boys, returns to the short form - so decisively, in fact, that his fine 2012 novel, "The Fall of Alice K," merits not one mention in the publicity materials that accompanied the review copy. This return, as the book's subtitle and an author's note inform us, is by way of Theophrastus, a Greek philosopher and polymath of the 4th century B.C., whose Characters Heynen cites as a model of sorts.

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