Reviews

Gay Dwarves of America by Anne Fleming

pixe1's review against another edition

3.0

A very mixed bag - some stories that were quite poignant with clever writing, and others that just felt painfully gimmicky

just_like_evan's review against another edition

5.0

Gorgeous, evocative. A writer in full understanding of the concept of "character." "The Pear" is one of the greatest things I've ever read.

ljpapp's review against another edition

4.0

I love Fleming's writing. Each story is unique and memorable, and she has a way of building each character to their fullest in such a short period of time. In GDoA, I particularly loved Soyez Blessé and Backstock: The Musical.

caseythecanadianlesbrarian's review against another edition

4.0

Have I mentioned lately that I love Anne Fleming’s writing? (I would say I love her, but we’ve never met and are facebook friends, and that feels a bit awkward). Reading her recently released short story collection Gay Dwarves of America was a bittersweet experience for me, because I knew once I finished it, I wouldn’t have anything new to read by her until her next book came out. As in Fleming’s other work, Pool-Hopping and Other Stories (her first collection that was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award for Fiction) and Anomaly (a critically acclaimed novel born out of one of the stories from Pool-Hopping), Gay Dwarves—I’ll get to this awesome title momentarily—peels away the layers of everyday people in everyday situations to reveal their surprising peculiarities. Or perhaps these peculiarities are not so shocking, considering what we all figure out when we get to know new folks: everyone’s pretty weird, right? Fleming shows us that, in fact, it’s our eccentricities, in all their diverse glory, which make us human; in fact, they’re what we all have in common...

See the rest of the review on my website: http://caseythecanadianlesbrarian.wordpress.com/2012/11/29/a-collection-at-once-moving-inventive-and-funny-a-review-of-gay-dwarves-of-america-by-anne-fleming/