Unaccustomed Earth

Her craft is mainly with her character development, but the entire collection seemed redundant. The stories all ended differently but in the same style - cut short and open-ended with some sort of ironic twist. One of my favorite things about the book was the opening passage from “The Custom House,” the first chapter in The Scarlet Letter, that has the phrase “unaccustomed earth” in it. The quote gave the stories, as a collection, a thematic unity that was nice.