Synopses & Reviews
Review
"It has been said, and I agree, that this prize-winning storybook (the author's first, but published almost simultaneously with her second, a novel) is uneven; but it is also true that the unevenness reveals a seed peculiar to each story which has ripened more or less, and which is a genius and an opportunity. Frucht's images have a preternatural fecundity that often works to comic effect with her matter-of-fact narrative. (The only thing I found annoying was a few inaccuracies having to do with Tidewater Virginia.) This is a very absorbing book. It just might change your life. Nowadays I find myself asking, 'What would the intrepid [Abby] do (for the protagonist of each of these stories is quite uniquely conceived and determined) in this particular situation?" Reviewed by Daniel Weiss, Virginia Quarterly Review (Copyright 2006 Virginia Quarterly Review)