A review by wordcommando
Squandering the Blue: Stories by Kate Braverman

5.0

Based on reading this and upon a Bookworm interview she gave for it, I believe that all the characters in these stories are actually Kate, including Diane Barrington and her friend Carlotta. Schizophrenia is mentioned in many of Braverman's work mostly in reference to her mother. But there is a splitting that occurred within Kate when it came to her attempts at sobriety. She is haunted by her childhood and by old lovers who fueled her addictions. These subjects recur over and over again and yet Kate, ever the poet, makes it all fresh with her incredible mastery of language. A troubled, brilliant, intense woman who left us far too soon.