Music For Wartime: Stories by Rebecca Makkai – 240 pages
Book Blurb:
Rebecca Makkai’s first two novels, The Borrower and The Hundred-Year House, have established her as one of the freshest and most imaginative voices in fiction. Now, the award-winning writer, whose stories have appeared in four consecutive editions of The Best American Short Stories, returns with a highly anticipated collection bearing her signature mix of intelligence, wit, and heart.
My Review: 4 stars
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Music For Wartime is a literary compilation of stories that all relate by ways and means of music and war. (Thus the title!) Many of you know that I’m not usually a fan of short stories. I always want more from the stories I like and then feel cheated when they end. Well, I can assure you, even though I wanted to know more, more, more from some of Makkai’s stories, it was worth it to have read any of them at all.
With outstanding prose, insightful characters and smart dialogue, this collection shouldn’t be missed.
My favorites by far were her 3 Legends, which were based on her own family history during the war. I also really liked the satirical nature of The November Story about a reality TV show producer.
Wonderful writing in this compact little book.
Quotes I liked:
The loneliest thing in the world is lying awake beside someone asleep.”
-“History was safer than the news, because there was no question of how it would end.”
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