After coming up for air after reading Haruki Murakami's 1Q84 (at a well-worthwhile 925 pages), I've been seeking out shorter works of fiction. Maile Meloy's collections of stories are just the thing.
After reading Both Ways Is The Only Way I Want It, I turned to her first collection, Half in Love. Ranch girls, a lovesick ranger, a homesick serviceman, and an ice harvester all have a story to be told. For many of the characters, shaped by their environment, weather plays a devastating role. If it's not a blizzard, it's black ice. If it's not winter, it's a scorching, windy heat.
For some reason, stories featuring the hardships of Montana winters are comforting while experiencing a relatively snowless winter here in Michigan. Come February, I may need a different story to read.
2 comments:
Can I borrow the Murakami book?
And I'm totally disappointed in this winter. I thought we'd experience something straight out of an Annie Proulx novel. Instead we get a tepid 30 degrees with exactly one week of enough snow to do anything with. Weak.
unh,umh (how the heck do you spell that? It's sort of like "I told you so".
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