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Dear Husband by Joyce Carol Oates
2.0

I trudged thorough this collection alongside A Good Man is Hard to Find, and was surprised at their similarity. Again I found the stories to be frustrating, but several in this collection actually made me angry at the experience of reading them. I was raging to my husband at one point that such awful useless things could be written with the expectation that people would choose to spend their life reading them. Then some of the later stories partly redeemed the collection, finally succeeding at the horror vibe I had hoped for. The Glazers was my favorite, and I actually really enjoyed it.