This is Not Your City

4**** and some more. Can I get a ½ star over here, please. A big thank you to my friend Laura, whose rating led me to this. This Is Not Your City is a collection of eleven stories about girls and women in very different geographies, age ranges and situations. The main link between most of the charac......more

loved Caitlin Horrock’s debut story collection, This is Not Your City. It’s an outstanding story collection written with great beauty, skill and compassion that I’ll return to again and again in my lifetime to reread, study, savor, and celebrate. The collection is so consistent it’s hard to say I’ve......more

This is a pretty remarkable collection of stories, and one that I think will have some pretty wide appeal. The stories themselves are of a traditional sort, and here that mostly means that they are geared towards liming and articulating a particular consciousness-- the goal of the stories, in fact, s......more

I'm not a big fan of short stories, but these are all really good. They are the perfect length, for one thing. For another, they manage to draw the reader in immediately and unfold delectably from there. It's like getting on a crowded train and, for a stop or two, overhearing a startlingly quirky an......more

Shades of Munro & Moore. There is no story in this collection that doesn't thrill me. Midway through, I had a small tantrum, rolling around on the bed, over the fact that every finished story brought me closer to the END of the book, and also over the fact that the book would ever end at all. CAITLI......more