In Gathering Noise from My Life, award-winning short story writer Donald Anderson has written a memoir in vignettes. It begins, 鈥淚 concern myself in this book with matters of war, race, religion, memory, illness and family, sources of humor and horror. And: boxing, which has been reported in literature from Homer on.鈥 This is a wise, readable, sad 鈥 and sometimes funny 鈥 literary memoir about life鈥檚 big questions.
