Republished with two new stories in 2018, much of it reads like a rehearsal for her more ambitious work, though it’s worth exploring in itself for Gay’s sharp-elbowed flash fiction. This debut collection was first published by a small press in 2011, before Gay became a household name as a fiction writer, essayist, and memoirist ( Hunger, 2017, etc.). A set of brief, tart stories mostly set amid the Haitian-American community and circling around themes of violation, abuse, and heartbreak.
