Valerie L. (vallipow) reviewed Limbo, and Other Places I Have Lived: Stories on + 40 more book reviews
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A nice collection of short stories featuring women protagonists; this is a nice way to try out this interesting author.
Lily Tuck's characters travel to exotic places and try to discern some elemental truth about themselves. Instead, they learn that the answers they seek lie not in other people or places, but within themselves. The stories are like vacation snapshots; Tuck sympathetically examines her characters' emotions and drives, exposing their flaws with humor, sometimes sadness, sometimes irony. Tuck writes with a passion reminiscent of Virginia Woolf.
The book is less than 200 pages, so it is a nice weekend or vacation reading experience.
Lily Tuck's characters travel to exotic places and try to discern some elemental truth about themselves. Instead, they learn that the answers they seek lie not in other people or places, but within themselves. The stories are like vacation snapshots; Tuck sympathetically examines her characters' emotions and drives, exposing their flaws with humor, sometimes sadness, sometimes irony. Tuck writes with a passion reminiscent of Virginia Woolf.
The book is less than 200 pages, so it is a nice weekend or vacation reading experience.
