A review by bobbo49
Tell Me a Riddle by Tillie Olsen

5.0

From Mom's bookshelf, four short stories. The first three are very good snapshots of the daily struggles of disparate lives. The fourth and title story, for which Olsen won an O. Henry Award, is absolutely magic: an aging couple, struggling with each other, their grown children and the world as they age, are suddenly faced with one's illness and looming death. Which of course alters everyone's perspective, at least a bit . . .