Katie Chase (1)

Wow! This is a wonderful collection of short stories that I hope readers will pick up and enjoy. There are several common themes threading their way through the stories including: societal gender roles, the competition among and between girls and women, the vulnerability and seeming powerlessness of women in many cultures, pasts that once seemed laid to rest come that come back to haunt… This is a book that is affecting and powerful. It is a book that makes you reflect. It is beautiful and show more horrific at the same time. I highly recommend this collection of short stories to everyone, but especially to women.

For discussion questions, please see: http://www.book-chatter.com/?p=392 show less

I need more from a story than these stories gave to me, especially stories told in first person. For me as a reader, the voice in each story sounded similar, and the direction each story was going in felt obvious. These are very personal reactions to stories that really have nothing wrong with them, just wrong for me.