The initial few stories were honestly not that engaging but ones that worked knocked it out the park for me. 
'The Chicane', 'Greed', 'Four Calls in the Last Half Hour', 'The Correct Grip' are clear standouts from this collection.
Hempel knows how to pack a punch in even half a page story but it is the longest one, 'Cloudland', in which woman reckons with the choice she made as a teenager to give up her newborn infant, that left me a in hangover. Hempel introduces her characters in peculiar settings, yet they seem very relatable.