The Necessary Grace to Fall | Critical Overview
Although Ochsner's first collection of stories, The Necessary Grace to Fall, won literary awards, it attracted little attention from reviewers. This is not unusual for a first collection from a young, unknown writer. However, Ochsner's second collection of stories, People I Wanted to Be (2005), did attract some notice. Interestingly, many of the comments of the reviewers about these stories might equally be applied to "The Necessary Grace to Fall." The reviewer for Publishers Weekly, for example, describes Ochsner's characters as "a host of oddballs whose touchingly...
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