Fat Swim: Fiction
Stunning, at times shocking ... Not all of Eisenberg’s stories are successful ... I began Fat Swim in a state of unease, feeling assaulted by the in-your-faceness of Eisenberg’s voice and style. Gradually, as with Miranda July’s All Fours, I let down my guard and became intrigued ... There is pain in all of these stories, many of them tales of queer love and a quest to be seen and understood. But there is also glee, a sense of liberation that in the end, is infectious.
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Dynamic ... Her bold, vivid stories will capture the reader’s attention.
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Nothing else in this collection measures up to the promise of Fat Swim. These works feel formless. It’s often difficult to discern why they start where they start and end where they end ... The stories are connected in that characters reappear but seeing them again is like bumping into someone you know you’ve met once but don’t quite remember. Several of them feature in the very long final story. In the end, though, we’re left with a ponderous metatextual coda rather than a deeper sense of who these characters are. One terrific story and enough additional stories to make a book.
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