Clearly something in this collection of short stories that everyone else can see that I can't. I've tried one of her novels too and I felt much the same, so perhaps she simply isn't for me. I found the ones that used the first person plural particularly problematic, like the 'we' was an archetype, and my brain kept saying, a whole apartment block of people would not feel the same way. I think it must be my problem, except that my husband (we read them to each other) felt more or less the same.