SOURCE: Seaman, Donna. Review of I, Rhoda Manning, Go Hunting with My Daddy, by Ellen Gilchrist. Booklist 98, no. 18 (15 May 2002): 1555.

In the following review, Seaman provides a positive assessment of I, Rhoda Manning, Go Hunting with My Daddy.

Gilchrist's most captivating recurring character, the classy and indomitable Rhoda Manning, starred in many of the best offerings in Gilchrist's altogether splendid Collected Stories (2000). Now more fascinating than ever at age 65, Rhoda rules this potent new collection [I, Rhoda Manning, Go Hunting with My Daddy], too, as she reflects on her contentious past, especially her complicated relationships with her tough and commanding father and her three headstrong sons. Her macho and assiduous father amassed a fortune selling tractors, abruptly left the “decadent” South for the clean and godly mountains of Wyoming, then schemed to lure his clan to his new world. Rhoda finally recognizes how much she resembles her impossible but...