Cait Recommends
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The Dud Avocado – Elaine Dundy

What’s the use of remembering anything? If it was unpleasant it was unpleasant and if it was pleasant it’s over. Continue reading
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Of Dogs and Walls – Yuko Tsushima

When it’s nothing, really. When it really doesn’t mean a thing. Continue reading
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Today a woman went mad in the supermarket – Hilma Wolitzer.

“That’s that,” I said, never believing it for a moment. Continue reading
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A Sunday in Ville-d’Avray – Dominique Barberis

What hopes, what expectations remained to her? What could still happen? Would the passing hours simply ‘wound’ her, one by one? Continue reading
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Secrets of Happiness – Joan Silber

The world, with all its wild shifts and flaring upheavels, was not a changeable planet to her. Continue reading
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The Parchinko Parlour – Elisa Shua Dusapin

When I finally ask her why she’s so quiet she says it’s because the holidays are almost over. Continue reading
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After The Funeral – Tessa Hadley

But at any rate the story of my life was set down, its themes were established, and I was living in the coda. Continue reading



