If She Could Take All These Men

Virginia Gillham is university librarian at Wilfrid Laurier University.

Each of the nearly 100 single-page stories in this amazing collection of
“postcard fiction” captures a poignant vignette from the life of an
extraordinary ordinary person. Such thought-provoking word portraits
bring alive a diverse representation of humanity and render the reader
party to intense moments in private lives.

It is interesting to contemplate the appropriateness of this relatively
new style of writing to the channel-surfing attention span of the 1990s.
The author does an absorbing and competent job of conjuring entire lives
in these micro-bites of narrative.