A review by mcgriddles
Here's Your Hat What's Your Hurry: Stories by Elizabeth McCracken

emotional funny reflective medium-paced

3.75

Some stories were better than others. Unconventional characters are the stars of each story, but the writer’s craft makes the stories somehow seem very normal. Particularly fond of Secretary of State and the last one in the series Of the Goings-on of the World: 

Please consider these words: 
do you remember,
they mean everything 
Do you remember 
is the game sweethearts and friends play 
And strangers from the same college who meet at the bus stop
Married people lead a life of it, I guess 
Do you remember our meeting? Our courting? Our parting? 
There’s something so personal and lovely, and casual in that line 
It was something that no one had said to me for 50 years…”