Name: One Hundred and Forty Five Stories in a Small Box
ISBN: 9781932416824

Dave Eggers

Sarah Manguso

Deb Olin Unferth

Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape, How the Water Feels to the Fishes, and Minor Robberies

One Hundred and Forty Five Stories in a Small Box

Melanie Richards

This is the book that made me fall in love with Dave Eggers; trying now to tear through everything else he's written/produced/etc. I was also quite taken with Deb Olin Unferth's rough style; I'd never even heard of her previously, but read through her contribution ravenously. Sarah Manguso, I have to say, is who places my rating at 4 rather 5 stars. Her micro-fiction felt too autobiographical to me—I could see the room where she was writing, could feel her trying to write her way out of boredom...meh. Underwhelmed, I suppose you could say.

One Hundred and Forty Five Stories in a Small Box Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape, How the Water Feels to the Fishes, and Minor Robberies