genre: fiction short stories
This compilation of stories have just enough familiar threads between them that people and places pull at strings in your mind as you read. There are neighborhoods where it seems like second chances don’t exist and homes with love that takes the edge off all the hard outside the door. Drugs and poverty and everyone cheating on everyone else but sometimes a tiny ray of hope. I’m not a particular lover of short story collections in general, so my hot take should be taken with that in mind. I actually wanted more connection, I think, more familiarity so I could dig a little deeper into their experiences. What I do know is that it is always good for me to spend time in my mind with lives that are both so different than mine while also built of the same longing for community and family and the kind of stability that can be a foundation to build on.
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