Helpful Score: 3
If you like short stories, this is a good on to read. It probably isn't one you want to keep on your shelf and read again 3 years later, but all of Haslett's characters are truly believable. In the book of 9 stories, there was only one I couldn't really get into to.
Helpful Score: 3
I am embarrassed to say that this is the first time I read short stories. I guess I just thought I wouldn't like not be able to grow with or into a character as I normally do with books. But this author does an incredible job of bringing you in quickly and allowing the story to end where it should. I will say it is not for the faint of heart and to be prepared for graphic sexual content- not hot and steamy type stuff- I will leave it at that. PM me if you need to know more before getting this book.
Karen F. (lovelylibrarian) -
Helpful Score: 2
These are really excellent short stories. Not uplifting but very well written and they stay with you after you read them. The author is working on a novel now and I'm looking forward to its being published.
Helpful Score: 1
A Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist; one of Time Magazine's 'Five Best Books of the Year in fiction. Short stories that explores lives that appear to be shuttered by loss and discovers entire worlds hidden inside them.
Nine short stories--all about troubled people (probably wouldn't be as interesting with "normal" people). The author seems to have a special interest in homosexuality as several of the stories have characters who are gay. The other stories revolve around people with mental illness. None of these stories have satisfying endings. If you're looking for a book that is uplifting, skip this one.
