Review: An entirety of human emotion
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 2, 2014
Short stories are a difficult breed to categorize - this one as well. A disparate collection of voices, stories, settings, with the lighter to keep them connected. Each story was a snippet - a tiny glimpse into a life, if you will. And each glimpse reveals something - moments of callousness in the face of kindness, tiny generosities, deep hurts, mundane banality... the stories individually are compelling, and together, they touch upon a entirety of human emotion.I have a couple of favorites. The unexpected pathos of a father missing a quiet smoke with his son - that story will stick with me as a small glimpse into the ever-changing relationship between a parent and a child. The pointless cruelty of the young men towards the hooker who is kind to them...