I´m reading Bad Dirt by Annie Proulx.
I´m really enjoying it. I find the short stories in Bad Dirt more humoristic than the ones in Close Range, and I´m finding myself laughing quite often.
It´s full of mystical elements as well - talking rodants, holes in the ground that eat people etc¨
The one thing every story have in common, is that you never have any idea where they are going or how they will end.
It´s clear that she is trying to stay away from traditional story-telling that often comes with a twist or a point at the end of each story. Instead her endings are often very anti-climatic.
and as always, reading Annie Proulx, always makes me want to go back to Wyoming, and see for myself if people there really are the way AP describes them.