Music For Wartime: Stories by Rebecca Makkai โ€“ 240 pages

Book Blurb:

Rebecca Makkaiโ€™s first two novels,ย The Borrowerย andย 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 ofย 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 Iโ€™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 Makkaiโ€™s stories, it was worth it to have read any of them at all.

With outstanding prose, insightful characters and smart dialogue, this collection shouldnโ€™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.โ€

-โ€œHistory was safer than the news, because there was no question of how it would end.โ€

 

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