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meganmilks's review
5.0
Solid, weird collection of short fiction--stories that swerve into unpredictable realms while staying rooted in emotional depth and weird humor. I love Jeanne's wry comedic sensibilities and the ways in which the absurdism deepens from quirkiness/preciousness into heavy discomfiture. Many of these stories *go there*. Favorites: the opening, titular novella about a girl who inherits a dead comic artist's enormous black emerald and uses it to start drawing obscene images and woo back her ex-gf; "Energy Arcs and Fractal Skies," about a boyfriend who move into the walls ("Fingerprints appeared on the mirror like breath on a windowpane. I MOVED INTO THE WALLS. How? she whispered. Oh God--Carlo? Can you--hear me? OF COURSE SHARON. I USED ACCELERATORS. ITS A POCKET DIMENSION. SO MUCH SPACE HERE" (90); and "Tomato Plants," about tomato plants named after the Bronte sisters. Loved this.
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