SOURCE: Review of I, Rhoda Manning, Go Hunting with My Daddy, by Ellen Gilchrist. Kirkus Reviews 70, no. 10 (15 May 2002): 684.

In the following review, the anonymous critic offers a favorable review of I, Rhoda Manning, Go Hunting with My Daddy and Other Stories.

Rhoda Manning is resurrected once again in a two-part collection [I, Rhoda Manning, Go Hunting with My Daddy].

The first half is comprised of Rhoda stories, sure to please fans of the many already-existing volumes of such (Collected Stories, 2000, etc.). The title story is told from a very young Rhoda's point of view on her first abortive hunting trip, while an older Rhoda announces (in “Entropy”) that “My name is Rhoda Manning and sometimes I think too much”—though this doesn't stop her from expounding on several decades of cross-generational substance abuse. “A Christmas in Wyoming” and “On the Wind River in Wyoming” are largely about Rhoda's...