The Visiting Privilege : New and Collected Stories (Hardcover)

from lisapeet

In a weird distinction, I thought the stories in this collection were really well done, but didn't enjoy the experience of reading it. I think because it was a library book, and I felt a certain pressure to soldier through it, when I would have really liked to read one or two at a time and put th...

from Bostonseanachie

In this remarkable collection, Joy Williams breaks all the rules: abrupt time shifts, inconsistent points of view, unfinished vignettes, you name it. The stories are nearly all intimate familial scenes that are simultaneously busy and cacophonous: characters talking at cross purposes, little fits...

from oldblack

Heard her story "Stuff" read and disussed on New Yorker podcast. Loved it. But I hated these stories. I read three or four and gave up.