Leyna Krow

I adore the cover. I adore the title. I just knew the words inside would be my thing, my jam. And these words are very much my jam! It's another one of those quirky short story collections I am so glad that I found. I say quirky, but I think the stories are actually much more grounded than I expected. Tying the isolation of humans with nature, ocean trips, space trips... and lots of squid. Sometimes slightly sci-fi in nature, or sometimes just nature/ ecology. Like any good short story show more collection, there is sometimes only one that I don't find quite as good, only because I wish for more detail, that the story was longer. These characters are fully formed and real. A treasure box of stories here! This is a very solid collection I can add to my list of favorites. I would set this on the shelf beside the short story collections of: Sharma Shields (who has a blurb on this book that I was delighted to see!), Sarah Pinsker, Kelly Link, Lara Ehrlich, Premee Mohamed, Donald Quist. show less

Women of a certain kind have always had to find ways to exist in this world. When one of these women finds herself caught up in the aftermath of a real fire in Spokane Falls, in Washington Territory, she could either end up trapped or find a way to be her own true self. A great novel that captures the feeling of Spokane and the feeling of being a woman alone, having to deal with emotional men and thieves.