THE title story in this book is everything fiction should be: inspiring, moving, comical, provocative and heartbreaking – and all that in just seven and a half pages. The rest of the stories in this collection are similarly remarkable. Some are also remarkably short: Go Away is, essentially, a well-told joke (and laugh-out-loud funny). economy with words cloaks her subtlety and power, though: a second reading uncovers hidden moments in each story. Inspired by scientific progress and science journalism, including articles in ¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵ, and driven by an author dripping with talent, this is as good as modern reading gets.
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