Comings and Goings

The Art of Being Seen (A Jim Garraty Story)

By: Alex Diaz-Granados

Narrated by: Bryan Haddock

Boston, 1984. A party Jim Garraty never wanted to attend. A girl who didn’t look away. A night stitched together by mixtapes, quiet courage, and the ache of choosing to stay.

Jim isn’t chasing romance—he’s just trying to outrun the noise. But when Kelly Moore enters the room with her drink, her Rachmaninoff references, and her uncanny ability to see without pressing, everything shifts. Over cassette tapes and Heineken beer, conversations deepen, touch becomes language, and for the first time, intimacy feels less like performance and more like breath.

Comings and Goings: The Art of Being Seen is a quietly luminous companion to the Reunion Duology, capturing one night’s transformation from awkward beginnings to the kind of closeness that rewrites your inner dialogue. It’s about music, memory, and the rare kindness of someone meeting you where you are—with patience, humor, and unexpected grace.

This isn’t a story about first love. It’s a story about the first time you didn’t have to explain yourself.

©2025 Alexander J Diaz-Granados (P)2025 Alexander J Diaz-Granados

Delightful listen

I had previously read the author’s novella Reunion: A Story and enjoyed his writing style. However, I had not yet had a chance to read Reunion: Coda. Since reading his first book, I have completely switched over to audiobooks on Audible and was a bit concerned that I would be missing background details from Reunion: Coda. But this was not an issue.

I quickly found that this was a very easy and captivating listen on my daily walk. I further appreciated the wonderful narration. If you have not read any of Alex’s other books, this is a great introduction, and I found it particularly enjoyable as an audio book. Having listened to many audiobooks I can tell you the difference between a good audiobook and a bad one is the person delivering the story and this one was excellent.

The storyline is simple, focusing on those brief but intense romantic connections, something that I think that most people can relate to at some point in their lives.

The only con is that I would love to have more of this on audiobook. I’m hoping at some point in the future that Reunion: Coda can come out as an audiobook.