The Road to Somewhere Else marks a departure in Tiffany’s writing. In the collection of short stories, poems, and essays, she challenges the recognitions and attitudes towards, expected and unexpected real and philosophical destinations. Tiffany continues the themes of longing, life regrets, and search for authentic self from Sunday’s book, Insatiable Consumption of Being.
Tiffany explores the themes in a series fleeting and energetic depictions of real and figurative roads and pathways, that must be confronted; anticipated or unexpected. In Sister and Brother, the nuance of the story unfolds, subtly delivering an unexpected ending and forced decision. Sunday contemplates the ability to test decisions by offering two different endings for French Garden, and the regret of settling and silencing the soul in Seagull Café.
Tiffany’s quest for authentic artistic life, captured in her essays: Dear Mystic, In Search of Silence, and Cape Cod, reveals the intricate coexistence of which roads and decisions to choose within the confines of society while protecting the creative soul. She identifies societal roadblocks on the map to “somewhere else” and offers an alternative path. Within this abstract collection, her brilliance is the ability to convey nuances and connect the subtle occurrences that are often unnoticed in modern society.
