Book: In Sunshine or In Shadow: Stories by Irish Women
Authors: various
Published: 1999 (Delacorte Press)
Pages: 316
Did y’all know that divorce was illegal in Ireland until the
1990s, and they had several big nation-wide debates and votes on it until it finally
passed? Okay. Now you do. That is the most I took away from this collection of
short stories.
That is the central theme, and while I admire cohesiveness
in anthologies, this one might’ve been a wee bit too narrow, because despite
spanning a few decades to either side of the decision, all the stories were
either about families/couples who were like, “It’s about damn time” in varying
degrees of loudness or single women hopeful that the decision would push along
their love lives. It was either Kramer vs. Kramer or Sex and the City, more or
less.
Donate. I don’t really want to, because I love the idea of
the collection and I always want to keep any short stories I can get my hands
on (and look at that title!), but none of these stood out as inspiring or re-readable.
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