Limbo, and Other Places I Have Lived Short Stories

"[A] lesser effort by [a] talented writer known for her spare, lapidarist style. Whereas Ms. Tuck's novels have attested to her ability give us strobelike glimpses of women suffering from cultural and emotional dislocation, the stories in this volume...tend to feel claustrophobic and overly contrived. The short form of the story points up Ms. Tuck's indebtedness to other writers like Joan Didion and the young Ann Beattie, and it underscores the limitations of her fictional canvas...."Tuck, Lily is the author of 'Limbo, and Other Places I Have Lived Short Stories' with ISBN 9780060934859 and ISBN 0060934859.