What I Saw from Where I Stood | The Grim World in Silver's Short Story Collection
In the following review, Huneven comments on the grim world in Silver’s short story collection Babe in Paradise.
Marisa Silver’s debut collection of short stories, Babe in Paradise, is peopled by house-breakers, eavesdroppers, carjackers, baby sellers, pornographers, bad parents and others who consider the social contract optional. And that’s just the humans. Nature adds other transgressors: birds that nest inside houses, rats that hide inside walls, fires that devour homes. In other words, boundary problems abound.
The paradise of the title is Los Angeles, a Los Angeles that’s haunted by the unattainable physical beauty and happy endings of Hollywood yet as populated by...
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