The Washington Post, February 16th, 2003
WHEN THE MESSENGER IS HOT By Elizabeth Crane Little, Brown. 210 pp. $21.95 Many of the short stories you stumble upon, in magazines and on the front tables of big commercial bookstores, offer a flavor of melancholy cuteness that has begun to taste slightly stale. Usually, a depressed protagonist with a zany, out-of-whack perspective on the world (she collects bottle caps and thinks that the world would be better if Curious George were president) finds some small shred of hope in an unlikely place, then something very bad happens, after which we're left with a poignant image: a butterfly stuck ...
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