A review by rvlgonzalez
Daddy by Emma Cline

As with most short story collections, some stories are better than others. There are definitely some cool/interesting narrative and stylistic choices. The stories tend to focus on that genre of pedestrianly bad people, like those that are not malevolent, don't do anything horrible, but are dads that resent their kids and don't support them in their artistic endeavors, or women who pretend to be other people on sex chat forums (made more complicated by enjoying to trick men who think she's a teen), or men who refer to their 30yo girlfriends as "juveniles". I just feel like there is a lot of that tone in lit and it's just not my fav.