A collection of unconventional love stories by Am Bloom a National Book Critic Circle Award Finalist in Fiction. Eight different short stories dealing with the different aspects of love along with sex change, age gaps and long distance.
"Amy Bloom gets more meaning into individual sentences than most authors manage in whole books." -The New Yorker
This collection a 5 out of 10
I started off so confident in this book, but was pretty disappointed. I agree with the comment about Amy Bloom being able to put an incredible amount of meaning in one sentence but unfortunately the sentences don't quite flow. It seems like ever story starts off with such promise and then just looses it's momentum and I would get very lost and confused half way through. Overall the collection clearly were created with a good idea in mind but I just couldn't follow them much, hopefully if you decide to pick up this book you'll have better luck than I did.
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