I've been a big champion of Lauren Groff's debut novel The Monsters of Templeton, but I have to admit I found her new collection of short stories to be something of a mixed bag. Something went awry in some of the stories that are outside Groff's experience, say, the title story, in which a bunch of war correspondents flee Paris as the Nazis approach. I struggled to get through it.
Better was Majorette, about one girl's life. Simple, smart, ultimately touching without a trace of sentimentality. That's how the collection goes: Some stories work, others don't.
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