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Everything Inside: Stories
by Edwidge Danticat
I am not a huge fan of short stories collections, mostly because I cannot switch characters and setttings that fast and usually just when I start getting in the story, it seems to end. Nonethelss, I was really interested in this particular collection because it was Reese's BC pick for August 2020 and I do tend to like most of her book picks.
And I have to admit I am not sorry I decided to give it a try. With eight stories in total, I did like most of them. They were little fragments of lives of women from Haiti and Caribbean, exploring their relations with their family, friends and lovers, but also telling the story about their roots, their homeland and their diasporic lives. Only the last story was written from a pov of a man, and even though it was so sad and served as a perfect ending to the collection, I did find it a bit not synced with the rest of them.
Big thanx to the NetGalley and the publisher for providing me an ARC of this book in exchange of my honest opinion.
And I have to admit I am not sorry I decided to give it a try. With eight stories in total, I did like most of them. They were little fragments of lives of women from Haiti and Caribbean, exploring their relations with their family, friends and lovers, but also telling the story about their roots, their homeland and their diasporic lives. Only the last story was written from a pov of a man, and even though it was so sad and served as a perfect ending to the collection, I did find it a bit not synced with the rest of them.
Big thanx to the NetGalley and the publisher for providing me an ARC of this book in exchange of my honest opinion.