A middling collection of domestic fiction short stories, many of them expanded from shorter works previously published elsewhere (see below).

Watergate Sue

A generational family drama about mothers and daughters, jumping from the present day where a grandchild is about to be born to a woman not yet born in the flashbacks where her mother is obsessing over the Watergate scandal. So?

Cats in Service

A family inherits the cats the mother's sister has trained to be household servants. Creepy but pointless.

The Egg Room

More meandering family drama. Meh.

Korin Voss

Set in 1947, a single mother's daughters are peripheral to the shambles which are her career and love life. But at least she tries to be nicer to Black people???

The Golden Lasso

A young girl is obsessed with rock climbing and a cute older boy. The most engaging story in the book, it wobbles around in a typical coming-of-age manner but mostly works as it takes a dark turn.

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Contents:
• Watergate Sue / Originally serialized in The New York Times Magazine, April to September, 2007.
• Cats in Service / Originally published as a minicomic of the same name in 2014.
• The Egg Room
• Korin Voss / An expanded version of a story previously entitled "The Good Witch," which originally appeared as a one-page comic on the back cover of Strumpet #1 and as a nine-page story in Runner Runner (Free Comic Book Day 2012).
• The Golden Lasso / An expanded version of a 14-page story that previously appeared in the 2011 minicomic Acorns & Pebbles. ( )