Beautifully written. Not for the faint of heart.

Drie sterren omdat het niveau van de verhalen nogal verschilt, maar als ze goed zijn, zijn ze ook HEEL goed. Beste verhalen: 'Look at your game, girl' en 'The matchbox sign', en 'Biter' is gewoon briljant.

Really 3.5. Some excellent descriptions of people and mindsets and relationships. I love how we come to understand how/why people do something horrible. Some of the stories have endings that just aren't as good as the body of the story - but that says more about how good the stories are than how not good the endings are.

NEED MORE WHEN IS THERE MORE

If you liked her short story "Cat Person" in the New Yorker last year, definitely read this. It's brilliant.

Qué raras y complicadas son las relaciones humanas y las pulsiones. Si bien la lectura fue rápida, algunos de los relatos no resonaron conmigo.

This was so good. Weird and sometimes repulsive, but there wasn’t a a dud in the lot.

4+ Eigenzinnig en anders

Rounded up from 3.5 stars. I liked this short story collection. One of the stories, "Cat Person" was assigned reading for my MFA and was recently adapted for film. It basically swaps male/female roles in some stories to show that women are actually not crazy.

I’ll have to get back to you on this review. It was a whole lot.