The Isle of Youth : Stories (Paperback)

from CLStern

Excellent collection of short stories.

from TheLoopyLibrarian

The Isle of Youth is a collection of short stories featuring a variety of women mired in secrecy and deception. Most live quiet lives of desperation. The female characters are well-imagined with much depth. Each story contains conflict and tension. Many of the women make bad choices and must live...

from Alexander19

The Isle Of Youth is one of the best short story collections ever published. All seven stories in the collection all involve someone disappearing or the aftermath after, before or even thinking of disappearing. All but one of the stories are told by a woman in first person. The stories were so in...

from nancyjean19

I loved this collection of clear, harsh stories about women going through pretty serious crises. Though each followed a somewhat similar formula, each catastrophe was told so succinctly and with such style that it really worked. The stories hung together without feeling too similar or too forcibl...

from jphamilton

The range, resourcefulness of plot, and fine writing in this collection are the reasons I love to read short stories. The author has an easy style that creates characters who are very believable and ring real. I didn't want even one of these story to end, but I was always eager to have another be...