PositiveThe New York Times Book ReviewAll of the innominate girlfriends, wives, roommates, teachers and even a children’s shelter worker offer similarly unfettered commentary. The stories begin to flow together through recurring objects...There are recurring characters as well. The title story revisits the same threesome described in 'At One Time This Was the Longest Covered Walkway in the World,' though the reprise is more lucid, as though the protagonist hasn’t had as much to drink. Taken as a whole, this harrowing yet ultimately enjoyable collection is less about the conventions of storytelling — exposition, climax, denouement — and more of a meditation on the stories a person tells herself.
