Book: Local Girls

Title: Local Girls
Author: Alice Hoffman
Thoughts: Yeah, I'm on one of those Alice Hoffman kicks again. I started a different one of hers and couldn't get into it, so I set it aside for this one. Local Girls is interesting because it's about the same few characters living in the same small town, but it spans many, many years, and each 'chapter' is actually a short story. I didn't know this when I started--though I did wonder at the in and out of different chapters written from different POVs and in different tenses. It made sense when I realized they were all connected in a linear way, but that each story could be read separately. I loved the story. There were so many beautiful moments. That's the thing about short stories-as-chapters...you can't be lazy. Each chapter/story has it's Big Moment. I think it's probably a good way to write a book, quite frankly. No lazy storytelling allowed.