I liked Fates & Furies but I didn't LOVE it. I wasn't sure if I would like this book, either, given that I haven't read a truly amazing short story collection in some time. But all of these stories are artful and have great impact.

I think Groff understands something about women that is hard to translate, to describe, to find in novels or books. But many of the women in these stories felt almost a little too close to home; their anxieties about the present and the future and their children just jarring at times because I felt these things sometimes, too.

Each story with something to behold, usually the prose and the way Groff swiftly weaves her tale. So much Florida and description and humidity and palmetto bugs and swamps and atmosphere.

Warning - there are some stories with children in harrowing situations. I highly recommend this, but I might shy a little bit from recommending to new moms or soon-to-be moms.