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I'm Not Hungry But I Could Eat
by Christopher Gonzalez
I hadn’t heard of this book or its author until an online friend announced she was gifting a few copies, first-come, first-serve. I’ll take a chance on just about any new short-story collection: Discovering new short-fiction writers is one of my many reading joys.
From the first story, I felt connected to the writer’s way of expressing emotions and feelings. With its overarching metaphor of the narrator possessing only half of a heart, “Half-Hearted” was my favorite, yet all of the stories achieve a certain poignancy.
Humor, mostly dark, is present as well, including its best use in the final story. As to be expected from the book’s title, the collection is full of eating—as well as drinking and sex—to be sociable; to delay loneliness; to fill a hole that’s much more than hunger for food, but is always hunger.
From the first story, I felt connected to the writer’s way of expressing emotions and feelings. With its overarching metaphor of the narrator possessing only half of a heart, “Half-Hearted” was my favorite, yet all of the stories achieve a certain poignancy.
Humor, mostly dark, is present as well, including its best use in the final story. As to be expected from the book’s title, the collection is full of eating—as well as drinking and sex—to be sociable; to delay loneliness; to fill a hole that’s much more than hunger for food, but is always hunger.