It’s good. It’s very good. But it’s a more serious work than I’m in the mood for. If it were shorter (the first six stories were originally supposed to be a short story collection called “The Geranium and Other Stories”) I’d go for it.

Actually, I’ll finish the first six, and call that a ‘book’, because it was originally intended to be one.

The first story “The Geranium” is amazing, and deeply affecting, but I’m not sure I can finish the book. There’s so much about the time and place it was written which is neither familiar nor unfamiliar enough… I can’t tell how much of the ‘disturbing’ was her intention, and how much is because of my own baggage.

From what I’ve heard of her, I gather a fair amount of it is what she was going for…