Camille Bordas Colorin Colorado. I read it twice. Second time with a close read, three pages of notes. Great short story for breaking down structure. Shame seems to be the central theme on the surface. Is there something lurking underneath?

Marie NDiaye – the good denis… is death? did not like much

Kevin Barry – Finistere… alternating story of him on ferry with tenn, and recalling his affair with women

Sterling HolyWhiteMountain False Star – coming of age… he gets his claim check…. and the girlfriend… and it ends with structure and agency as he looks in her eyes and cannot read the look, as they have gone through all the tropes in the previous day of buying the car and getting drunk.

The Middle Voice by Han Kang. structurally and thematically complex, but in the end I wasn’t left with anything…

Joyce Carol Oates Love Letter…. a little throwaway gothic about a woman remarrying late in life… is the husband having nightmares, or is she having the nightmare?

Yiyun Li Wednesday’s Child…. getting over, or not, a very mean mother.

Evolution by Joan Silber…. coming of age americana of the 1970s…. nostalgia and regret and a sense of an ending…

The Last Grownup by Allegra Goodman…. children gone, alone… with the dog.