Story spotlight: “Transient Pains” by Bob Sojka
An American temporarily loses his sight in an accident in Beirut in Bob Sojka’s “Transient Pains.” While recovering, he tells his nurse stories about growing up in an immigrant family in Chicago in the 1950s, where stereotyped animosities arose among people of different origins. ~ ~ ~ “Transient Pains” appears in The Golden Door, a…