American Innovations by Rivka Galchen

October 10, 2014 by Christina

Fiction — print. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014. 175 pgs. Library copy. Galchen’s collection includes ten short stories and nearly all of them are written in first-person making it difficult to determine how distinct these stories are supposed to be from one another. Even so, I found myself warming to nearly every rendition of ‘I’ and greatly enjoying the magical realism injected into many of the stories. The book begins with “The Lost Order” in which the narrator is harassed […]

Categories: 2014 Reads, Fiction, Giller Prize, New York, North America, Short Stories, United States • Tags: Rivka Galchen