![]() ![]() Evans does feature a handful of stories with different protagonists, including a young man recently returned from Iraq and in over his head with an old girlfriend, but she’s right back to her comfort zone in the next story." ![]() Evans writes this protagonist-a young African-American or mixed-race woman who’s trapped between her past and a more promising future-extremely well, but when the first three stories all center on basic variations of the type, it leads to diminishing returns. I was excited to read this after coming across an AV Club Review calling it “a remarkable short-story collection in a good year for short-story collections.” But what made me especially eager to read it was something the reviewer said that didn’t sit right with me: "The biggest issue with Suffocate is that nearly every story features a similar protagonist. ![]()
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