A review by victoriaknow
The Black House by Patricia Highsmith

3.0

The book was a gift and not something I would have chosen for myself but I enjoyed the stories more than I thought I would. Some were basically just descriptions of a few normal days in the characters' lives that it was a wonder how the author managed to weave interest and dysfunction through the telling enough to make a story out of it. In other stories, the tag line on the book about the characters being victims trying to act like protagonists really rang true. None were terrible enough to make me want to stop reading, which is what I originally feared. A good diversion from my usual fare.