[The stories in Summer Girls, Love Boys and Other Short Stories] are bound by locale, Greene Street; but with one peripheral exception the characters do not cross the boundaries of their individual stories. Four center on a first love…. Three protagonists face or cause crises…. The spotlight that swings through this neighborhood sympathetically catches women of all ages at various junctures in life and gives equal time to puppy love, marriage and death because all carry equal significance at the moment they occur. If there is an overall message here it is that Mazer can really write a short story.