RaveSlateHer stories are intense meditations on love, heartbreak, youthful ennui, gender, and race ... Collins pays close attention to the minutiae of love lost. The opening story in the book, 'Exteriors,' reads like the script of a relationship’s undoing ... The stories in this collection are often conversational and candid, as though the reader has been invited to have a chat with the narrator. I read Collins’ stories and saw glimpses of myself and other black women in my life reflected back ... If not for the persistence of her daughter in bringing her work to the world, Collins’ sharp and lovely stories would be lost.
