Over the past year I developed a new love, really an obsession, with the short story form, and have been fortunate to receive several excellent collections through the Goodreads First Reads program. This volume continues my run of good luck.
As with any collection of stories, the reader will prefer some to others, but there were far more hits than misses in this group. I particularly love Trotti's writing style, in which his desire for economy demands that he will never use ten words when one would do. I found this lack of verbosity refreshing and startling.
I'm glad I was in a happy place when I read these stories since most all his characters fall somewhere between disillusioned and despondent. I feel a lot of Millennial angst emanating from every pore of this book, and I came away wanting more.
While this falls just short of recent efforts by Robin Black and Nickolas Butler, I do give it a strong recommendation and hope to read more from Trotti very soon.
