Not my cup of tea: thirteen unhappy endings. One funny story about sleepwalking. And the final story is a bittersweet romance. That said, this is a highly-praised collection of absurdist-horror-scifi stories that are hard to put down. None were published in the scifi press, instead going for mainstream literary journals, leading to her well-deserved praise and success. So I thought that, OK, she avoids the whole scifi genre trap.  Ha ha, it isn’t that simple because: ~~ ML Fringe