sarahcurl 's review for:

Single, Carefree, Mellow by Katherine Heiny

3.0

emotional funny reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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“You would love to make him waffles with strawberries and sit in the warm morning sunshine of your kitchen and tell him about the day he was born, and how when he turned twenty-four hours old, you cried because you never wanted him to get any bigger.”

I adore most of what Heiny writes, including several of these short stories (especially That Dance You Do, a mom’s perspective of her son’s birthday party), but I struggled reading about so much adultery. Even so, the writing was typical Heiny, funny, a little weird, and all about being human. Even if I couldn’t entirely connect with all the stories, there are pieces to love throughout.