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A review by kfan
Thunderstruck & Other Stories by Elizabeth McCracken
4.0
Loved this. McCracken puts in Work, by which I mean this isn't just a collection of cool & interesting & affecting stories, but also that they're filled with the kinds of lines that make your eyes shoot out of your head.
My favorites were:
"Something Amazing" which has a killer opening paragraph about a ghost, and instantly shot into my Top 5 All Time Favorite Short Stories.
"Some Terpsichore", about a woman who sings like a saw
"The Lost & Found Department of Greater Boston", about a missing woman, which reminded me of the unsolved murder of the woman who died on Ellery St in Cambridge where I used to live
"Peter Elroy", about death and wolves and fiction,
"Thunderstruck" about a family and parenting and a trip to Paris and the heartbreak of children, and is so sweet and sad, but also made me genuinely LOL in a passage describing a man's pee.
My favorites were:
"Something Amazing" which has a killer opening paragraph about a ghost, and instantly shot into my Top 5 All Time Favorite Short Stories.
"Some Terpsichore", about a woman who sings like a saw
"The Lost & Found Department of Greater Boston", about a missing woman, which reminded me of the unsolved murder of the woman who died on Ellery St in Cambridge where I used to live
"Peter Elroy", about death and wolves and fiction,
"Thunderstruck" about a family and parenting and a trip to Paris and the heartbreak of children, and is so sweet and sad, but also made me genuinely LOL in a passage describing a man's pee.