This is a collection of short stories by the lovely author Lesley Nneka Arimah. While I read this for class, I genuinely believe this book should be spread far and wide. Arimah visited my class and I’m so glad I got to interact with her.
- Pages
- 232 pages
- Plots
- Emphasis on trauma, especially family trauma
- Arimah had amazing pacing, something that can be difficult when attempting to compress a story into 20 pages (plus or minus a few)
- Characters
- Unique and touching
- Focused on female characters and developing time periods
- Did I cry?
- No, but I was close to
- This deals with some serious topics
- Did I laugh?
- Maybe a couple chuckles were let out, but it was primarily serious
- Endings
- I wanted more from some of them!
- There were a few that I thought were left too open ended
- Couldn’t put it down?
- It was really easy to race through this
- Each story was relatively short and kept my interest, so I would quickly go on to the second
- Overall
- Loved it
- I want to read more short stories/collections
- Excited to read the novel she’s working on
Stacks to Read 