Review: Bleakness with humor and heart
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 20, 2014
I'd read and enjoyed some of Darren Sant's work previously...but these stories are terrific.Think of "Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" or (from an American standpoint) the less harrowing elements of "Last Exit to Brooklyn", a couple of generations on, and you'll have an idea of Sant's setting and outlook. There's a lot of bleakness, to be sure, but there's also a lot of humor and heart. His characters are really well drawn, especially Ernie the WWII vet and the shopkeeping Singh family.I liked this collection so much that I went back and got the first batch of "Tales from the Longcroft" immediately (I got #2 in a special offer a while back).