The Lottery and Other Stories

Shirley Jackson is wonderful. Every one of these short stories is so masterfully written, small and medium-sized portraits of big-city and small-town incivility and anxiety and interpersonal slight so mundane but so universal. And a perfectly dark sense of humor. A lot of these stories focus on what life was like for women in the middle of the century, but don't seem at all foreign for it. I've read ‘We Have Always Lived in the Castle' and ‘The Haunting of Hill House' and this and I have enjoyed all three a lot. I'm going to read everything of hers I can.