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3.93 AVERAGE
3.93 AVERAGE
I think this may be the best collection of short stories that I have ever read. I’m stunned! I have no words to describe the words that Haslett has used to transport me to other places. Exquisite? Perfect? I give up.
Some of the best short stories I have ever read! Psychological tint to each story but presented for the layperson. Lovely. Just lovely.
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
A series of [un]connected short stories attempting to understand the human condition, the ability to feel the least human at your most human state. A clear tie-in with his novel, IMAGINE ME GONE, over ten years later.
This is an incredibly downer collection of short stories about people struggling with different mental health issues. These are quite beautifully written - the best is probably the one with the psychiatrist who goes to visit a mother mourning the death of her teenage son, who's refusing talking therapies - and I can definitely recognise these people - but there's also something really distancing about writing about people in the throes of conditions that have them distanced from normality.
These stories seemed plain and didn't grab me by the throat.