we all have soulmates. mine is short literary fiction.

anyone can write a long book and make you care about characters when they have hundreds of pages to do it. managing to make me love three people so much in 84 pages that i cry to say goodbye to them, when i've spent barely a magazine in their company, is magic.

this is a short book, but it is perfect. i loved every page of it in a year where i barely seem to find books i like.

what a gift!

bottom line: magic.