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A review by briandice
Squandering the Blue: Stories by Kate Braverman
4.0
Twelve short stories, crafted with acute attention to constructing the perfect sentence, the willful sentiment. "Tall Tales from the Mekong Delta" was by far my favorite, a combination of O'Connor's devil in "A Good Man is Hard to Find" and a West Coast Tama Janowitz heroine.
Blue is a common motif threaded through each story, and while Braverman is a fantastic author I think I should have perhaps spaced out the reading of the stories over more days - the booze/drug fueled women-on-the-verge, dealing with daughters that hate and men that abandon are present in every story, making the collection bleed into one. A friend gave a high recommendation for [b:Lithium for Medea|37785|Lithium for Medea|Kate Braverman|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1391042449s/37785.jpg|37587], that will be my next Braverman.
Blue is a common motif threaded through each story, and while Braverman is a fantastic author I think I should have perhaps spaced out the reading of the stories over more days - the booze/drug fueled women-on-the-verge, dealing with daughters that hate and men that abandon are present in every story, making the collection bleed into one. A friend gave a high recommendation for [b:Lithium for Medea|37785|Lithium for Medea|Kate Braverman|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1391042449s/37785.jpg|37587], that will be my next Braverman.