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Rebecca Schiff's collection of short stories was a revelation. It has everything I want from a collection: humour, (often of the black variety), heartbreaking sadness, and moments of shocking clarity. These stories feel like the revealing of the inner workings of a young American woman's psyche. In fact, in the last short piece, entitled ''Write What You Know'', it feels that the narrator/author is telling us the experiences which have led to this collection. ''I only know about parent death and sluttiness'', she tells us. She goes on to talk about her knowledge of Jewish people who are assimilated, liberal and sexual guilt, and I think it is no exaggeration to say that these are the underlying themes to practically all of the stories here.
Schiff's book explores and examines the world as it is now, warts and all, and I can't recommend it highly enough. I could write about how much I loved every single story in there, but then there would be nothing left for you to discover for yourselves – and that would be a shame.
If you liked this, you might like [[This Should Be be Written In The in the Present Tense by Halle Halle, Translated by Helle Helle and Martin Aitken(translator)]].
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