Contemporary fiction. Short stories. All of them centre Black women, I think particularly Black women in or from the US South, in a range of relations with faith and family and love and friendship and desire. Short, readable, and engaging. Generally speaking, when I read short fiction, I prefer it to be either genre or weird, and this is neither, but I picked it up anyway because of the breadth of bookish content creators with disparate tastes whom I saw speak highly of it. And I’m glad I did. I particularly appreciated that all of the women and all of the stories felt distinct – even master short story writers can sometimes fall into writing the same story again and again, and there was no hint of that here. Really good.
Originally posted by Scott on Goodreads.