A review by randrenfrow
Werewolves in Their Youth: Stories by Michael Chabon

3.0

The wonderful Chabon writing is definitely present in this collection, albeit a tad bit less expansive than his current prose, more in the vein of The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, which honestly I like a little bit more, so you would think I'd give this 4 stars, and I certainly would have, save for the fact that every story is about the same darn thing! Every short story, except for maybe the first and the last, revolve around a crumbling marriage. In the afterword to Gentlemen of the Road, where he vouches for his turn towards genre fiction, he even remarks on this fact that back then he was sort of stuck in the trend of writing very typical American short stories, all about marriages falling apart. Each story, in and of themselves, is pretty fantastic, but string them all together and I have to agree with Chabon, it becomes a little repetitive and uninteresting.