Old Crimes: And Other Stories
In each Old Crimes tale, the past has thrown a rope around its characters’ necks, and is tugging.
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McCorkle is a brilliant storyteller who makes use of the retrospective voice at key moments and employs peripheral characters as narrators to underscore the extent to which trauma and regret cast long shadows ... Wonderfully rich and emotionally complicated stories.
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Though the collection feels somewhat repetitive, McCorkle serves up plenty of humor and heartache each time she weaves a tale of interconnected relationships, and often pushes her stories toward empathetic and surprising climaxes.
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