I can't even remember why I picked this book up in the library, but I'm quite glad I did. This collection of nine short stories is really good, although it tends towards subject matter of death/suicide/mental illness which was a little frustrating to me. I think every story in the collection had a least some mention of one of the three above, and it was just a little disappointing not to have some more variety.

That said, that stories were great, the characters vivid even in a short time, the plots interesting and new. I particularly enjoyed the first and last stories in the book, the former from the perspective of a cantankerous and unstable self-proclaimed inventor, the latter a fragile depiction of the friendship between an elderly woman and a teen-aged boy.