Book Review: What the Hands Remember

Tiny stories with outsized impact define What the Hands Remember (A Vignette Collection for the Times), an anthology by J.R. Larriba. Ranging from western themes and childhood antics to the folly of trench warfare in World War I (and a brief stop in outer space), these tales are more than an author’s musings; they share common bonds even when they stand apart.

What the Hands Remember: A Book That Made Me Put My Phone Down and Actually Feel Things

Hands that knead barren dough, turn a breech child in a buried wagon, clutch the last ember in a century of dark, stitch a covenant that outlives the cloth.
Piece by piece, then as a whole. What the Hands Remember — A vignette collection for the times.