Bestselling Irish native Emma Donoghue (SLAMMERKIN) delivers a
top-notch collection of 19 short stories featuring a variety of
everyday characters caught in the middle of the unexpected. On the
surface, each offering is grouped according to one of five themes:
Babies, Domesticity, Strangers, Desire, and Death. On a deeper
level, these broadly defined boundaries intersect throughout many
of the stories, as they often do in reality, creating a series of
snapshots that are both unique and true to life.
Although there isn't a dud in her bunch, Donoghue shines