This collection of short stories was quirky, at times a little too quirky. The stories are less fully fleshed out stories as they are vignettes of life. You briefly meet people, sometimes in strange, metaphorical situations. One of my favorites was “The Nearby Place,” in which a girl pushes an older man down a seemingly infinite hallway, towards a place that promises to be better. Ultimately, however, I found this collection difficult to connect to.