A review by vetchling
Manywhere: Stories by Morgan Thomas

4.0

This is a unique collection with really beautiful writing. It has a very different tone from the short story collections I've been reading the past few years-it's quite melancholy, but also creative and unexpected. I appreciated learning about queer history that I hadn't before, and I liked the deliberate ephemerality of a lot of the stories. Strangely, even though I came away from this knowing I'd read something very good, at times it did feel like a bit of a slog to get through. I had to drag myself through a few of the stories, and even though I finished it just a couple of days ago, I realized while going through reviews that I've forgotten quite a few of them. I think a little bit more humour or levity would have made the collection sparkle slightly more, but that's just a personal gripe. Overall, being immersed in something so queer made me feel at home, and I loved the many creative explorations of gender.