Day Care: Stories
Lange is a chronicler of all that is strange and secret about people, mining that strangeness for comedy and pathos ... Has a fondness for autodidacts and obsessives and is adept at blending esoteric references (ranging, in this story, from the Bible to contemporary art to ancient myth to Lydia Millet to the work of the Center for Land Use Interpretation) seamlessly into her own idiosyncratic worldview ... Lange often writes in this mode, a kind of funhouse mirror of ecofeminist criticism; her women tend to be deadpan wits in a dying world ... This reads as commentary on capitalism and control, but also, perhaps, as a description of storytelling.
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Sharp and off-kilter ... Lange’s well-honed stories build to stinging epiphanies. Those with a taste for acerbic wit will find much to enjoy.
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A droll collection of stories about women, sexism, and the weirdness of daily life ... The effectiveness of Lange’s social commentary, however, varies throughout the book’s 18 stories. The tales that succeed are excellent, biting satires from a unique feminist lens; but there are some that don’t quite measure up to the others.
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