![]() But too often characters who are supposed to be close family, friends, or partners explain things to each other for the benefit of the reader. Sometimes characters recur or side characters from one story emerge as main characters in another. Even the more traditional stories read like vignettes, constellations of pretty images and ideas that make for scenes, not stories. The language is rich and rhythmic, the sentiment fresh, but devoid of context, it resonates only so deeply. But the stories tend to lack layers they are beginnings without middles and endings, as if they were drafted from writing prompts and then polished, by a skilled author, without further development. ![]() Most of the stories are quite short and feature vivid sensory detail the author has a gift for describing smells in particular and using them to conjure emotion. ![]()
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