Reviews

Not Where I Started From by Kate Wheeler

tenderedge's review against another edition

5.0

Some of the stories in this collection were incredibly valuable to me, arousing the desire to travel, recalibrating my moral compass towards the just or else to a kind of knowingness that is deeply moral, and satisfying my curiosity.

ben_miller's review against another edition

3.0

Of the 10 stories in this collection, I think about 4 of them are terrific. The others have their moments, but the middle 4 stories: "Mr. Peanut," "La Victoire," "Urbino," and "Judgment" stood out. Wheeler's prose, at its best, is funny, aggressive and unique. When the stories fail, it's because of the absence of a central tension, not because of the writing. I read this with my fiction students; it was a great book to learn from.