Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory: Stories
Raphael Bob-Waksberg
A fabulously off-beat collection of short stories about love--the best and worst thing in the universe. In "A Most Blessed and Auspicious Occasion," a young couple planning a wedding is forced to deal with interfering relatives dictating the appropriate number of ritual goat sacrifices. "Missed Connection--m4w" is the tragicomic tale of a pair of lonely commuters eternally failing to make that longed-for contact. The members of a rock band in "Up-and-Comers" discover they suddenly have superpowers--but only when they're drunk. And in "The Serial Monogamist's Guide to Important New York City Landmarks," a woman maps her history of romantic failures based on the places she and her significant others visited together. Equally at home with the surreal and the painfully relatable (or both at once), Bob-Waksberg delivers a killer combination of humor, romance, whimsy, cultural commentary, and crushing emotional vulnerability. The resulting collection is a punchy, perfect bloody valentine.
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0 0i really struggled back-and-forth between whether i would give this 2 or 3 stars. it would be a 2.5 rating, if i could.
to preface: i have a relative indifference towards bojack horseman and abandoned the show a couple seasons in. it wasn't that i disliked it, i just didn't really care. i went into this book without any sort of real adoration for the author, more interest from recommendations from friends.
there were some really strong short stories in here, and those were enough to keep me going through it and to finish it in the end. what i liked was just greatly outweighed by what i either: didn't like, or felt indifference towards. it felt a bit like short-story speed-dating, but not quite as charming as that sounds. i found myself skimming through some of the stories. other stories such as rufus and the average of all possible things were lovely, and i was glad to have read them. it reminded me a bit of tabloid dreams by robert olen butler, which i struggled with for similar reasons.
i really wanted to love this, but after months of picking it up and putting it back down, trying to come at it from different dispositions, it just never stuck for me. i have heard from multiple people in my life that listening to the audiobook version is a much more delightful experience, and perhaps i will try that in the future, and it might influence my current opinion.
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