First Posted: 10/2016
5 Stars
Mastering the word!
Atkins is an amazing writer and having read a lot of her work, I found this collection of her short stories ingenious. Even though I read her other stories, and the short stories were related to those, I was able to also see the stories as independent and stand alone. Her characters are incredible and her work, wondrous. Bird People was my favorite of all the stories, but all of the work is worth reading. Bird People is something that cannot even be described, but it's something that this reader read several times, and the quote that brings it justice is "It magnifies things. It sets everything on fire. It inflames and enrages and excites." It's her story and how she tells it.
