I read this collection of stories in college for a Southern Literature class my senior year. I loved it then, and rereading it now, I still love it, but it’s definitely more poignant and less funny as I recall it, but it’s still very good. The stories here, and there’s a lot of them for a short collection involve marriages and families living mostly in and around Kentucky in the 1970s. These marriages are often strained or have taken on a kind of weight that […]