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A review by jonathanwlodarski
Here's Your Hat What's Your Hurry by Elizabeth McCracken
4.0
The best story here is the title one, "Here's Your Hat What's Your Hurry," about a drifting distant relative who blows from house to house. It's fun, it's sad, it's hopeful. A really good one. "What We Know About the Lost Aztec Children" is also really great.
But there aren't any others that particularly strike me. "June" is probably the third-best story, but it's borderline too-uncomfortable-to-enjoy, and "The Goings-On of the World" feels like a good beginning but ultimately it doesn't go far enough.
But I was bored by several of them: "The Bar of Our Recent Unhappiness" in particular has evaporated from my mind completely, and "Secretary of State," a story about a big family that reminds me of my father's own sprawling dynasty, didn't capture my attention.
So one keeper to come back to, a few to remember fondly, and several to forget.
3/5
But there aren't any others that particularly strike me. "June" is probably the third-best story, but it's borderline too-uncomfortable-to-enjoy, and "The Goings-On of the World" feels like a good beginning but ultimately it doesn't go far enough.
But I was bored by several of them: "The Bar of Our Recent Unhappiness" in particular has evaporated from my mind completely, and "Secretary of State," a story about a big family that reminds me of my father's own sprawling dynasty, didn't capture my attention.
So one keeper to come back to, a few to remember fondly, and several to forget.
3/5