Amy Warren's Reviews > Owning Up

I really enjoyed this collection of short stories, finding a few themes running through the collection: a love of TV shows (including nostalgic references to crime shows), kids who are from good homes yet can't help screwing up, fathers loving their sons despite their mistakes, inheritances from father to son, "history is continuum...past, present and future all one thing." They say that books with adolescent narrators are coming of age stories, but I think that phrase could also be used when the narrator is older and looking back on their life, measuring their memories, their life experiences in love and loss. I usually don't care for short story collections but I've read almost everything by this author and I absolutely adore his writing. Highly recommend this collection.