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Cowboys Are My Weakness by Pam Houston
4.0

If you like stories about women and their romantic entanglements with men, if cowboys are *your* weakness too, then this is the story collection for you! Houston somehow manages to expose women at their most vulnerable with a respectful clarity and tenderness in very, very few pages. I liked all the stories, but my favorite was "In My Next Life:"

"This is a love story. Although Abby and I were never lovers. That's an odd thing for me to have to say about another woman, because I've never had a woman lover, and yet with Abby it would have been possible. Of course with Abby anything was possible, and I often wonder if she hadn't gotten sick if we would have been lovers..."