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Title: A world in each story
Review: Having read her other books, Love Invents Us, and A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You, I think "Come To Me," is Amy Bloom's finest by far.Each story broaches delicate issues of life and death, love and loss, and definition of family with humor and humility. Nothing is taken for granted, including the way she carefully chooses each word, each turn in the story.Enter the beginning story with Ellen at her mother's funeral in "Love is Not a Pie." Watch as Henry and Marie contemplate monogamy and negotiate the confines of their relationship in "Faultlines" and "Only You." Follow Violet as she watches her sister fall apart in "Silver Water."The endings of Amy Bloom's stories are surprising not because of shocking leaps in logic or tumultuous events, but because the world in each story unfolds so gently, envelopingly, and it is a jolt when each closes up again, leaving you with the imprint of a world gone as quickly as it unfolded.
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