This is a very well-written book of twelve short stories that center around how nature and animals affect our lives and our relationships and how we respond to them. I found the book inspired some emotions in me as I read, especially in the stories where memories of parents long dead were the subject that inspired the story. This was particularly true in the story "Housewifely Arts" when a mother takes her child to a run-down zoo to see the talking bird that was once her deceased mother's bird, just so that she can hear her mother's words and voice come from the bird once more.
This is literary fiction in the form of short stories at its finest for a first time author. I am anxiously awaiting more from this young writer and would love to read more along the lines of the subjects of these short stories.
Highly recommended for short story readers and for literary fiction readers and also for readers who like stories of nature and humans.
This is literary fiction in the form of short stories at its finest for a first time author. I am anxiously awaiting more from this young writer and would love to read more along the lines of the subjects of these short stories.
Highly recommended for short story readers and for literary fiction readers and also for readers who like stories of nature and humans.
Never got through the whole book, it felt like drudgery to continue. If you like depressing stories that have no real endings than this book is for you.
