The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, by Aimee Bender
Lovely short stories; read them
(Review posted 20 Aug 2004 02:45:11)

Good reviews are usually so much easier (and less entertaining) to write than bad reviews.

This is a very, very, good book. Get it and read it.

Sixteen short stories in 180 pages, each one a small gem, strange and abstract and surreal but also warm and sexy and direct; like Barthelme with less distance (but mostly just like Bender).