These richly diverse stories of change, loss and curiosity represent a larger body of work by storyteller and author Joel Arno Holmberg.



Holmberg's unostentatious narratives are as likely to unfold in nursing homes, coffee houses, or baseball sandlots – and across geographies as varied as Hollywood, Africa, or the hill country of central Italy.



Shifting seamlessly between the thoughtful, melancholy, suspenseful and humorous, Holmberg’s carefully-crafted tales bring us to unexpected places – but also to quirkily profound meditations. In one, the teenage son of an archeologist in a remote region of Africa arrives without warning, creating havoc. In another, a conservative accountant becomes a cat burglar, in hopes of achieving – just exactly what?