Tung's review
Werewolves in Their Youth: Stories
by Michael Chabon
Tung's review
Werewolves in Their Youth: Stories by Michael Chabon
Tung's review
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This is my third Chabon work and my second Chabon short story collection of the year. The book takes its title from the title of its first short stories, although there is no coherent theme that runs across these nine stories. Overall, I found it similar to the other short story collection (A Model World) – moments of brilliance brought down by moments of mediocrity. Out of these nine stories, I would classify two as amazing (“Werewolves in their Youth” and “Son of the Wolfman” which is the best of them all); two as good (“That Was Me” and “The Harris Fetko Story”); three as Mediocre (“Spikes”, “Mrs. Box”, and “Green’s Book”) and two as irritating (“House Hunting” and “In the Black Mill”). “In the Black Mill” is Chabon’s personal project as it fits with his contention that genre fiction shouldn’t be segregated from traditional modern fiction. However, this attempt at a horror story doesn’t contain the same strength of wordplay found in ...more
