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Emergency: Stories by Kathleen Alcott, Kathleen Alcott

misha_ali's review

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3.0

I had high expectations for this one, but only enjoyed about half of them when all was said and done. I think one of the problems was that for me, having story after story from the first person POV of a woman describing her life and partner started to blend together for me after a while. By the end, I genuinely wasn't sure if an incident was from the current story and protagonist's life or one of the many others preceding her story.

That said, perspective aside, the sentences in here are sometimes really interesting and sometimes very untethered from the narrative, which adds to not being able to quite place which story and protagonist I was reading about.

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