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Thanks for the recommendations. I’m going to add these to the list, especially Jack Handey. In keeping with the short story theme, I really enjoyed Meet Me in Another Life (Catriona Silvey) which is a novel, but feels like a book of short stories, with each story about the same two characters. But in one story they’ll be college students and in the next story one will be a kindergarten student and the other a middle-aged teacher. After half a dozen of these short stories the characters begin remembering glimpses of these other lives and all the seemingly unrelated short stories tie together. It was clever although I’m not sure it completely stuck the landing, but I’m still thinking about it months later so there’s something to it.
Thanks for the recommendations. I’m going to add these to the list, especially Jack Handey. In keeping with the short story theme, I really enjoyed Meet Me in Another Life (Catriona Silvey) which is a novel, but feels like a book of short stories, with each story about the same two characters. But in one story they’ll be college students and in the next story one will be a kindergarten student and the other a middle-aged teacher. After half a dozen of these short stories the characters begin remembering glimpses of these other lives and all the seemingly unrelated short stories tie together. It was clever although I’m not sure it completely stuck the landing, but I’m still thinking about it months later so there’s something to it.