![]() ![]() ![]() What we do get is a nice balance of variety and consistency: there's a range of POVs and characters, but not too many. ![]() I'm thinking of it as a novel because that's how the experience works best for me, I think, so I can consider it from the most favourable perspective. ![]() None of this is a criticism, by the way! Whether it's a novel or a collection has no bearing on its quality, but I think it's worth bringing up because how you read this book, what you expect from it going in, might affect how you enjoy it. (And of the longer ones, I'm not sure how many I would've enjoyed had I read them on their own, since they are so firmly situated in context.) Some can, but some are short links that only work for me if I think of them as adding to the overall book rather than as being pieces in themselves. I think part of that is because there's a primary narrative thread through all of them, but more of it's because I don't think every story/chapter can stand on its own. The way I experienced this book wasn't as a short story collection but as a single novel with, well, chapters. It's got me to think about what I'd even define as a 'story', because I think if I had tried to read this the way I might usually read a collection of short stories, it wouldn't have worked for me. I would recommend this book, but I would recommend reading it as a novel, I think! ![]()
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