Her Body and Other Parties

This week I learned that Matt had never heard the story of the woman with the green ribbon around her neck! I don't know if this is because his family is normal while my dad liked to tell weird and freaky stories to us as kids, or if this is one of those knowledge gaps that you think everyone knows but somehow he missed it.

That story re-telling, The Husband Stitch, was one of the strongest. I also really liked Eight Bites, and Real Women Have Bodies. My biggest issue with this collection was that too few of the stories had actual conclusions/endings. Some were too ambiguous, or strange enough as to be inconclusive, and I needed just a tad bit more. Even just a sentence!

(I read a few pages of the SVU story, Especially Heinous, before skipping over it, since I've never watched an episode of Law and Order, and didn't know what I was supposed to be getting out of it.)