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Amazingly detailed stories worth a look for sure
Glenn Blake is not well known, but gosh I wish he were. The stories in this slim volume opened up worlds for me that I never knew existed. The geography is the obvious definition of the worlds I am talking about, but also the characters. They are fresh, dynamic, and always a bit quirky, though not enough to make them unbelievable. They are perfect people, if there can be such a thing. They argue, they hold grudges, and they live without restraint, but it is these things that make them able to interact with their severe geographical settings.

This is by far the best collection of stories I have read this year. Glenn Blake is an artist of much importance, and I can only hope that he continues to write and produce such beautifully rendered stories. Don't hold the thinness of this volume against the writer. The stories in here breathe new life into the short story form, and it is very rare for an author to do that in their first published collection.

Bravo Mr. Blake, and please don't stop writing. Mr. Blake's gift is one that I hope all of you will explore and enjoy.

Happy reading.

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Masterful
This is a beautiful, haunting collection of stories about a part of the country I have no connection with, yet Blake brings me there, sits me down and says, "Look around." I didn't want to leave. Buy this book and read it again and again.

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A real writer, real stories
Terrific short stories about things that matter written in a prose that knows that language might be music. Forget Franzen, buy this one instead. The only thing not first-rate about this book is the type-face, which is weirdly small. What were they thinking? Buy it anyway.