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I'm not usually a fan of short stories so I'm pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed this book. I loved how the stories were all linked and centered around different families from a neighbourhood. The ending seemed a bit abrupt at first but in hindsight I think it was a fitting ending. 👍

After reading Turbulence, I was jonesing for another good interconnected short story collection & I found one.

Taking place across 2 years in the same small neighborhood in Scarborough, ON, this collection follows many ethnically diverse characters. An older lady who is a minor thief, a woman having trouble conceiving, a teen caring for her aunt with cancer, and 3 times, June, a Chinese teen just trying to find her way. Many suicides. #24b42020

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A series of interconnected short stories about growing up in the suburbs. This is one of the best books I have read this year.

A new book for week 2 of swim lessons. A collection of short stories by a writer compared to Munro, so I'm in.

Two big thumbs up!! It is a collection of stories about people that live on the same street in Scarborough in the 1970s. It deals with what it was like to grow up in that era, new immigrants finding their way in Canada, adults looking for happiness.

This is a collection of stories about a subdivision neighborhood in the 1970s. Each story is unique, but they are interconnected. Usually, I am not a fan of short stories because I desire intense character development. Leung is able to give her characters depth even in a short amount of space. The topics are at times dark (given the premise that the adults in the neighborhood begin dying by suicide) but the prose is beautiful and lyrical. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

When I was a young person, I was unlucky enough to read two or three literary novels that convinced me all litfic mistook dispassion for sophistication.

That was wrong, obviously, and *I* was wrong to judge all litfic by those few duds. Sometimes, though, the shoe fits. The first two stories in this collection were so bland I've decided to bow out.

Here's a picture of Casey being ordinary, since I think that's kinda the point of this one.

This book was so delightful! Set in the 1970s in a subdivision of Scarborough (Toronto) it's a series of connected short stories about people in the subdivision. There are a series of suicides that link the stories together - but the book isn't as grim as that might make it sound. Leung weaves complex narratives about race, about domestic abuse, sexuality and coming of age in these well written short stories.

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This book of connected short stories really worked for me. I like the storytelling quality of the author‘s writing and it made me nostalgic.👍

This is collection of interconnected stories, revolving around families in a newly built suburban neighbourhood. This is one of those books that I find hard to review; the stories are entertaining enough to keep me reading yet they‘re also somewhat blasé. I enjoyed the book but wouldn‘t go out of my way to pick it up now that I‘ve experienced it.

Not great, not horrible but nearly late. Gotta finish it but mostly because I‘m 2/3 of the day through it and it‘s not bad enough to warrant leaving it incomplete.