A review by lolajoan
The Middle Stories by Sheila Heti

challenging dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

This book of short stories is complicated. Some of it feels like the kind of stories that if you really worked hard enough there be some transcendental flare of meaning, but some of them just seem sad twists of absurdity. There's the germ of her later books discernible, so you can kind of see how incisive and insightful she'll become in her writing, but some of these just seem like exercises for the sake of being weird.