This story collection has a lot going against it in terms of me liking it. For one, it’s a whole New Kid in Town, NYC scene, heavy promotion by writers who I DO NOT TRUST (eg Lena Dunham, but she’s not alone on this one). It’s possibly topical. So for example, I read no fewer than three novels last year about trans-racial adoption especially by Asian-American writers. And so sometimes, the hop new thing and topical writing forces young/up and coming writers into a kind […]