None of the stories leap out as better than the others, per se - I don't know that there's one where you'll go "OH WOW!" and post it up as a banner example of Lennon's work. Instead, each of the stories spins together into the whole and makes this collection that oh-so-rare example of being greater than the sum of its individual parts. And those individual parts are all good. They are not connected, they are not linked - they are just all solid pieces of short fiction. And reading them on a porch or in air-conditioned suburban 'security' was just one of those perfect confluences of time, place, and story.

More at RB: http://ragingbiblioholism.com/2014/08/12/see-you-in-paradise/
and at TNBBC: http://thenextbestbookblog.blogspot.com/2014/08/drew-reviews-see-you-in-paradise... ( )

None of the stories leap out as better than the others, per se - I don't know that there's one where you'll go "OH WOW!" and post it up as a banner example of Lennon's work. Instead, each of the stories spins together into the whole and makes this collection that oh-so-rare example of being greater than the sum of its individual parts. And those individual parts are all good. They are not connected, they are not linked - they are just all solid pieces of short fiction. And reading them on a porch or in air-conditioned suburban 'security' was just one of those perfect confluences of time, place, and story.

More at RB: http://ragingbiblioholism.com/2014/08/12/see-you-in-paradise/
and at TNBBC: http://thenextbestbookblog.blogspot.com/2014/08/drew-reviews-see-you-in-paradise... ( )

Got it from the library. Read the first 2 stories and skimmed through the 3rd, which is the book's title. Wasn't sucked in and decided to move on to other things. The stories are supposed to be a bit dark I guess. Very normal stuff with a twist. I just felt too apathetic toward the characters to keep reading. ( )