The flavor of real human doubt percolates through. It is this, a grasping after the core of what defines a person and their relationship to the world, that elevates the stories above their quotidian facades. Pointing fingers occur repeatedly in these stories, and Fischerova uses the image with extreme effectiveness. It grabs and focuses the reader's attention. The interplay, the relationship, between reality and the grasping of reality is pointed to over and over.
Words point at their meaning, signifying something beyond themselves.
Fischerova creates fictions from reality, and vice versa. That is the writer's craft. Her talent lies in keeping the relationship dynamic. Sometimes the finger is just a finger, a physically present thing, a carefully chosen word. At times the finger is a synecdoche for the whole character, and at other times a trope for a direction to look in and explore further.