Jennifer Down has the ability to write from so many different perspectives. Each story in this collection is incredibly compelling in it's own, unique way - I couldn't put it down! Here's one of my favourite moments of the book:

"Wes didn't mind feminists so much. He believed in equal pay, he just didn't know why they needed to be so shrill about everything. Sometimes it seemed to him as if Kirsten saw everything as an attack. He didn't understand all the emancipation. Years ago he'd said to Miranda, I thought it was something she'd get out if her system while she was a teenager. His wife looked at him and laughed. She'd said -That is the system-. Maybe he'd answered with something thick, because he remembered Miranda looking at him with something like pity or patience and staying -Darling, that's the only way for women to survive-. He hadn't thought about it in years. Remembering it now made him ache in a new, hot way; that his wife and daughter had shared it, that he couldn't access it, that it wasn't his to understand." ( )