Heart Songs and Other Stories

*3.5 stars. Stark and dark. Grim and grimly aware of the human condition. Proulx is an exceptional writer with an eye for the minutiae that makes her descriptions of people and places so real and raw. There are three stories in here that truly shine, a few that clunked, for me, and a few somewhere in between. I really enjoyed the titular story along with The Wer-Trout.