A review by mcwat
Bad Behavior by Mary Gaitskill

I much preferred the second half of this collection to the first. I felt that some of the subject matter was gratuitous (BDSM, prostitution, etc.) which would've been fine with me if the protagonists of these stories had been more believable. I don't know. When it comes to sadistic businessmen or whatever, I'm willing to go there, but there has to be some exposition about the motivations behind their behavior. I just never felt like I understood why some of these characters did what they did, and I didn't feel like they did, either—and not always in a human-nature-is-so-confusing-what-are-we-to-do way. I loved "Connection" and "Heaven," though. Definitely two stories I'll return to.