A review by lene_kretzsch
Some of Them Will Carry Me by Giada Scodellaro

challenging emotional mysterious reflective fast-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.75

With the exception of the stunning "The Balcony" (one of the longer stories in this brief collection), the second half of this little but surprisingly dense and meaty book is distinctly better than the first. While themes of identity, isolation, and the difficulties of establishing and maintaining intimacy are present throughout, the later stories seem to tackle this is in more interesting, often playful ways and there's more experimentation with form and the idea of what a story can be (can it be a tiny recipe? In Scodellaro's able hands, yes, it can!) But the book is so brief that really this hardly matters and the good stories outweigh the occasional somewhat tentative, meandering, or not quite fully formed examples. Pithy yet thought-provoking and resonant, this is a very worthwhile collection from an intriguing new voice I hope to hear more from very soon. Well done, Dorothy Project!