PositiveEDGE\"Though these tales are set in the bleak environments of Midwest college campuses and dried out suburbs, the people and their situations are what bring the set pieces to gorgeous life. The folks populating Taylor\'s swiftly spinning universe have been created purposefully as unique and extraordinary, and this careful characterization seems to be the author\'s forte ... Throughout the collection, much of Taylor\'s imagery is exquisitely vivid ... While not all the stories in the collection are of uniform excellence, the ones that are gel into a magnificent memorable reading experience saturated with all the high drama and the low-down pettiness of relationship dynamics.
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