Karolina Wicha Wicha itibaren Lodhpur, Gujarat 384290, Índia
Picked this up at Half Price Books for $1. Honestly, most of them weren’t very good, the endings were either predictable or so contrived that they felt forced. I did like “Spinning Sugar” by Morag Prunty and “Dinner with Annie” by Gemma O’Connor. A lot of the stories, all written in 2004, take place in a post 90s Ireland where there is a huge recession, where people have been let go of good paying jobs and are either destitute or working blue collar jobs. Everyone is unhappy or at least mourning their riches. I hadn’t heard about a severe economic crisis in Ireland, but it seemed a given in the stories.