A so-so collection of short fiction that took me forever to slog through.
The collection is dark, depressing and rather abstract in some stories. The main characters include a woman who appears to be suffering from some sort of schizophrenia and dementia, a woman being stalked by a foreign student, several couples in relationships that range from unhappy to adulterous, a counselor at a camp for children with disabilities, and a racist who insists on seeing new tenets in her building in their "native costumes."
Out of the 14 stories in the collection there were only 3 that I really liked.
As a reader of romance, I found
Rape Fantasies to be rather interesting. The main character of the story has rape fantasies where she fends off the attacker by some stroke of luck - the would be rapist gets his zipper stuck and starts to cry that he's never been able to get anything right or some other such ridiculous thing. I thought it was a clever take on the idea
The other story I liked was
A Travel Piece which is about a travel writer that ends up in a plane crash which leaves them stranded in life boats on the ocean for several days. It has a bit of a Lord of the Flies vibe too it.