A review by galsgotmoxie
Me and My Daddy Listen to Bob Marley by Ann Pancake

3.0

This collection of West Virginia-set stories opens hot with the novella "In Such Light," but is ultimately quite uneven. The good stories are quite good, with "Mouseskull," "Arsonists" and the titular "Me and My Daddy Listen to Bob Marley" the standouts in my opinion. The rest of the collection -- mostly the shorter stories -- gets too bogged down in creative writing course Appalachian patois and a few odd pacing and character decisions, so much so that the architecture of the stories becomes a distraction from the story itself. The stronger pieces largely make up for those missteps, however, making for a satisfying read.