I love short stories. You can read something with a beginning, middle, and an end, and because they are "short", the language tends to be beautiful, concise, and what could be said in 300 pages is usually told in 100. I also like them because sometimes I just don't want to read a full blown novel. Short stories are great because it's a small commitment!
That being said, this collection of short stories is incredibly depressing. I was assigned this book in my senior seminar class in college. It was rough because like I said, a lot of the stories were sad and hard hitting, so having to read 4-5 stories in a sitting for review was no fun. I felt like I needed to watch Disney movies after each assignment to get my spirits back up! But even with all that, the stories were beautifully crafted and always enthralling, just not in a happy-go-lucky kind of way. It was a good thing these were short stories, because if they were novels, I don't think I would have made it through any of them!
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