Short stories. Weird, creative, clearly influenced by both literary fiction and sci-fi. Pretty queer. The stories explore things like history and memory on a generation ship, a working-class teen on a cross-country road-trip with a rich woman in a car shaped like a whale, escaping anti-semitism in Europe and moving to America with a mechanical replica of your Bubbe, an intersex youth in a port city beset by sirens, and a murder-mystery at a convention of the Sarah Pinskers from 300 slightly different realities. Hadn’t heard of the author, but she seems to have been a winner or finalist for pretty much all of the major sci-fi and fantasy writing awards. I’m not as into short stories as I was once upon a time, and there was maybe one in this collection where the making-a-comment-on-our-reality worldbuilding was a little heavyhanded. But even that story I enjoyed, and overall the writing in these is great and they are exactly the kind of short story I like. Great stuff, and I definitely want to read more from her in the future.
Originally posted by Scott on Goodreads.