{"id":8415,"date":"2021-03-28T11:44:31","date_gmt":"2021-03-28T17:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=8415"},"modified":"2021-03-28T11:45:06","modified_gmt":"2021-03-28T17:45:06","slug":"the-doctors-dilemma-by-daly-walker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=8415","title":{"rendered":"The Doctor\u2019s Dilemma: Short Stories by Daly Walker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"\"<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Original and provocative\u2026 Gloriously engaging.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Walker creates poignant worlds shimmering with hope, pathos, trauma, and healing in this engrossing collection of short stories. Worn down by age, the 93-year-old protagonist of \u201cAt the Door\u201d struggles with loneliness after his wife\u2019s death. His hopelessness is balanced with the optimism of his outlook toward aging and life. In \u201cIndia\u2019s Passage,\u201d a surgeon wrestles with guilt and trauma after losing a young patient to a supposedly uncomplicated surgical procedure. In \u201cNui Ba Den,\u201d Walker explores old love, longing, infidelity, and old hurt. Challenging and evocative, \u201cResuscitation\u201d celebrates medical professionals as COVID-19 wreaks havoc on people\u2019s lives, examining what it means to be a healer. Enlightenment and introspection pervade these stories, shaping various protagonists and their lives. Walker is skilled when it comes to building his characters\u2019 entire inner lives through scant details, and his evocative worldbuilding keeps the pages flying. With its repeated focus on individual struggles and issues of morality and mortality, the collection makes for a necessary reading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Doctor\u2019s Dilemma<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Short Stories<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Daly Walker<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grand Canyon Press<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s website<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coming soon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Original and provocative\u2026 Gloriously engaging. Walker creates poignant worlds shimmering with hope, pathos, trauma, and healing in this engrossing collection of short stories. Worn down by age, the 93-year-old protagonist of \u201cAt the Door\u201d struggles with loneliness after his wife\u2019s death. His hopelessness is balanced with the optimism of his outlook toward aging and life. In \u201cIndia\u2019s Passage,\u201d a surgeon wrestles with guilt and trauma after losing a young patient to a supposedly uncomplicated surgical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145610851,"featured_media":8416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[56739,955],"tags":[38100332,24777292,7223,726,7215,3328,178,1136176,54306025,91586,1473,1008073,856121,309,546,349],"class_list":["post-8415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-short-reviews","category-stories","tag-amreading","tag-amwriting","tag-author","tag-authors","tag-book-review","tag-book-reviews","tag-books","tag-indie-books","tag-indieauthor","tag-literary-fiction","tag-reading","tag-review-blog","tag-review-website","tag-reviews","tag-short-stories","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/doctors-dilemma.jpg?fit=1080%2C1440&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pajKJn-2bJ","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/145610851"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8415"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8422,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8415\/revisions\/8422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}