Say Yes | Critical Overview
Wolff’s first short story collection, In the Garden of the North American Martyrs, was published in 1981. When Back in the World, which collected ‘‘Say Yes,’’ was published four years later, many reviewers commented on how it differed from its predecessor. Mona Simpson writes in the New Republic that she finds the second batch of stories to be ‘‘in a more somber mode.’’ They ‘‘feel omniscient,’’ she says, ‘‘universal, with biblical resonance.’’ She continues, ‘‘In these new stories, Wolff works with the same thematic concerns,...
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