Dec 28, 2009

The Management of Grief | Critical Overview

When The Middleman and Other Stories, the book of short stories that includes "The Management of Grief," appeared in 1988, it won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction and met with great critical success. In the New York Times Book Review, Jonathan Raban praised Mukherjee's style and her growth since Darkness, her first book of short stories. "Her writing here is far quicker," he wrote, finding "no slack in it." Dinah Birch, in the London Review of Books, wrote that The Middleman and Other Stories "presents a razor-sharp reflection of a...