The Cracked Looking-Glass: Katherine Anne Porter (Penguin Modern)

One of those “short novels” that offers a snapshot of an entire life, enough detail for you to fill in the gaps yourself (I’ll take that any day over an over descriptive tome). Subtly brilliant writing — dialogue, free indirect speech, and a third person narrator who is not quite able to keep their opinions to themselves. Sort of a precursor to what Denis Johnson did years later in Train Dreams.

This book is a weird one because while I did enjoy reading it, I can’t think of anything in particular to highlight. The best parts were just little lines of dialogue, but the stories were decent as well.