Problems with People

by David Guterson

Ten sharply observed, funny, and wise new stories from the best-selling author of Snow Falling on Cedars : stunning explorations of the mysteries of love and our complex desire for connection.

Ranging from youth to old age, the voices that inhabit Problems with People offer tender, unexpected, and always tightly focused accounts of our quest to understand each other, individually, and as part of a political and historical moment. These stories are shot through with tragedy—the long-ago loss of a young boyfriend, a son’s death at sea; poignant reflections upon cultural and personal circumstances—whether it is being Jewish, overweight and single, or a tourist in a history-haunted land; and paradigmatic questions about our sense of reality and belonging. Spanning diverse geographies—all across America, and in countries as distant as Nepal and South Africa—these stories showcase David Guterson’s signature gifts for characterization, psychological nuance, emotional and moral suspense, and evocations of small-town life and the natural world. They celebrate the ordinary yet brightening surprises that lurk within the dramas of our daily lives, as well as the return of a contemporary American master to the form that launched his astonishing literary career.

Genres: Short Stories, Fiction, Literary Fiction, Contemporary, Audiobook, Ebooks, Adult

176 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2014

About the author

David Guterson is an American novelist.

Reviews

[Diane S ☔ · Rating 3 out of 5]

This collection focuses on people, of all ages but all are socially awkward or just getting back into the dating scene. The characters are introspective not sure of what they are doing, questioning their own behaviors and not sure how to approach. things, situations or other people.

The first story Paradise is about two people who have met on-line and are trying to forge a relationship, get back in the game so to speak. Viagra is even involved, the new and improved way to meet people and have sexual relations, I guess.

I was a little disappointed in these stories, I felt that on a whole they were well written but lacked depth. None really stood out for me and I doubt I will remember any with any detail. That said, Guterson is a good writer, these stories are good, but for me I just expected a little more.

ARC from publisher.

[Pammy · Rating 4 out of 5]

I found 'Problems with People' on the New Books shelf of our library. The cover noted it was by the author of 'Snow Falling on Cedars' & that was enough for me. I usually am not drawn to short story collections...not sure why...just don't read many.
These ten stories are a treat. Each is a perfectly bundled & tied gift, ranging from poignant or pragmatic to tender and tearful. And each is straight from daily life...easily your life or mine.

[Rick · Rating 3 out of 5]

Each story is like a small emotional washcloth
being wrung out.

[LuAnn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Those who know me understand my admiration for David Guterson. He’s one of my Top 10 authors and I run to the bookstore as soon as I know a new book he’s written is ready to hit the shelves.
The nearest Hastings, however, wasn’t going to get this book in store, so I ordered it and waited impatiently for it to come in. As soon as it did, I rushed right down and picked it up, brought it home and started reading!
Guterson is a Washington state writer and many of his books and stories take place in some part of our state, even here on the eastern side. That makes his stories even more entertaining because I often recognize the areas he writes about.
Problems with People is a collection of 10 short stories. Many take place here in Washington … others in different states and even countries.
Each story looks at an issue any number of people might be dealing with and explores how the characters go about solving their problems. It’s a fun read and a fast read and I’m definitely looking forward to the next book by this author!

[Victor Carson · Rating 3 out of 5]

A really gloomy set of very short stories from an author I admire. Each of the stories seems to address one form or another of social isolation and alienation, especially the marginalization of old age. I can identify with some of that sentiment - but I am more philosophical in MY old age, since I have never been as famous or well loved as David Guterson. Nevertheless, I did enjoy some of the stories. One is set in Nepal, where a man's attempt to rescue his estranged wife from her hospital is met with her refusal - she'd rather take her chances with her third-world medical care than subject herself to his control. Another story is set in the familiar setting of Washington State, involving the death of a young man while fishing for salmon in Alaskan waters. The husband and wife would rather fight about who is responsible for the son's recklessness than comfort one another. A third story involves a very sick old man, who hires a woman in her forties, who has led a hard life emotionally, to walk his very old, very sick Rottweiler. A quote from that story might give you the flavor of that tale. Speaking about his dog, Bill, Lou says:
“I loved his attitude. I admired his bullshit. He’d tear the door down. He’d kill you for looking at him. He had this thing he did with his face.” Lou snarled, curling his upper lip. “‘I’m Bill, don’t cross me, I’ll tear your throat out. I’ll rip your head off.’"
I still admire David Guterson and liked his most recent novel, Ed King, very much. I hope to read more from him in the near future.

[Sterlingcindysu · Rating 3 out of 5]

Short book of short stories. The whole time I was reading it I could picture Larry David as the narrator for most of the stories...so that gives you an idea of the tone. For example, one story covers a son taking his father back to Berlin and being given a tour of Jewish sites and another is an older couple taking his parents on a trip. Lots of angst for a glimmer of hope.

People have problems, that's for sure and most of them aren't fun. A very realistic book.

I have no idea why there's 2 flamingos on the cover.

[Michelle · Rating 3 out of 5]

An interesting short story collection authored by award winning novelist David Guterson: "Problems With People: Stories" explores the many conditions of humanity and the unexpected things that invariably happen as life unfolds unpredictably. Most of the stories richly detail areas in the Pacific Northwest around and in the Seattle area, the heavy traffic on interstate I-5, I-405, through Snoqualmie Pass also Mount Rainier; one story takes place in the popular resort Harrison Hot Springs, B.C. also world wide destinations which include Nepal, Delhi, India and Berlin, Germany. David Guterson lives in Washington state with his wife.

In the first and my favorite story "Paradise", an older couple explore meeting though match.com, which both seem unfamiliar with the challenges of online dating. Their first date was "arduous and painful", he spoke on another date of his former wife who had died of a heart attack while in the process of leaving their 26 year marriage. The best part of "Paradise" was another story told about the life of the dating lady growing up in Eastern Washington as a farmers daughter.

In the story "Tenant" a landlord not inclined towards social interaction attempts to contact his tenant who is renting his condo.
The "Northwest Trek" is a Western Washington native animal habitat park which seems somewhat similar to the story "Pilanesburg" which involved an African safari park. "Nelson" and his sister are locked inside after the park closes.
A man in the story "Politics" navigates his way around the primitive culture in India seeking his journalist wife injured in a bus accident killing 3 people. He encounters an Indian boy who assisted and helped him avoid getting lost, yet wants to be paid extremely well to the point of tourist exploitation.
From the Book)... "Clement could be emotional, he was emotional, he was recently divorced, he'd been ill with a MRSA infection, he took things personally. Clement was an artist."
The peculiarities of obsessional thought and hyper-focus are evident in the story "Feedback". While her husband was away on a three day business meeting the narrator fixated on a Jewish man Hamid McAdam: after snubbing him, she studied his online photos and teaching profile.
In "Hot Springs" a man goes on vacation with his wife and parents. His father, a retired judge is pleasant company, he is highly offended and embarrassed by his mother's lack of social graces, manners, and awareness of others.
"Krassavitseh" a son travels with his elderly father, a Holocaust survivor, staying in a 5* hotel near the Berlin University of the Arts. The father's bitterness against the German people is evident as they toured Jewish sites of WWII, a German Historical Museum and a concentration camp. They were surprised to find out a detail about their German tour guide at the end of the story.
The story "Photograph" is of tragedy. Hutchinson and his wife are notified by the Alaskan Coast Guard of the loss of their son Paul, on the fishing boat "Fearless". The family dealt with their grief, the captain arrived at their home to pay his respects.
Vivian, a domestic helper/dog walker helps a terminally ill man "Lou" walk his large aggressive dog "Bill" in the last story: "Hush". Vivian's care and interest develops over time into a friendship, as she wonders where Lou's family and friends are when he obviously needs more assistance beyond what she was hired to provide. This is a story of compassionate service that can't always be bought with money.

Overall, these stories of ordinary life were good, it was interesting to learn more about Jewish culture and attitudes which were noticeable in many story themes, as well as the nature, complexities, illness and faults of human behavior.

[Lori L (She Treads Softly) · Rating 4 out of 5]

Problems with People by David Guterson is a highly recommended collection of 10 short stories that showcase introspective people struggling to connect with each other. Almost all of the characters are isolated in some way, physically or emotionally. They all seem to distance themselves from human interaction or misinterpret social clues, creating drama where there is none.

Most of the characters in Guterson's stories don't even have names, which enhances the sense of isolation and solitude that surrounds them. Each story is a small picture of a character that is being developed subtly, gently, by an author with an understanding of human nature and its nuances.

This is a well written collection that should resonate with those who enjoy thoughtful short stories that focus on character development and the frailties of human nature.
Contents:
Paradise - a couple in their sixties who met through an online dating service are starting a new relationship
Tenant - a landlord struggles over his questions about his new tenant
Pilanesberg - an adult brother visits his dying sister in Africa
Politics - a man admires a beggar tenacity at first and then has enough of him
Feedback - a woman obsesses over Hamish McAdam's name and its seemingly incongruous ethnicities
Hot Springs - a judge who ignores being Jewish is reminded of his heritage
Krassavitseh - a father and son tour Holocaust memorials in Germany
Shadow - the retired narrator has developed short-term memory loss which negatively impacts his life
Photograph - a couple grieve over their grown son's drowning death, while the wife blames her husband
Hush - a friendship develops between a dog walker and her gravely ill customer

Disclosure: My Kindle edition was courtesy of Knopf Doubleday for review purposes.

[Susan (aka Just My Op) · Rating 3 out of 5]

The problems with the people in this Problems with People book of short stories is that the people were neither interesting nor likable. The writing was sometimes pretentious, and even though my advance reader's copy is only 163 pages long, I couldn't wait to be finished with it.

I loved the author's Snow Falling on Cedars when I read it several years ago, Since then, his writing has been mixed for me.

In the first story, the author disdains quotation marks, perhaps to make the piece seem more literary, but it only makes it harder to read. Quotation marks were used in the second story, but dialogue turned into a long, rambling monologue about an uninteresting person. And changes of paragraph were scarce. Perhaps that will change in the finished edition, but to me it seemed more a stylistic choice than something final editing will change.

For me, the best story was Krassavitseh, about a bitter old man returning to Germany for a visit.

There was some intertwining of the stories, but not enough to get to know the characters and care about them.

The very short book is a quick one to read, but at the end, I didn't have that satisfied, “Ah, I'm glad I read that” feeling.

I was given an advance reader's copy for review.

[Joe · Rating 3 out of 5]

I review David Guterson’s Problems with People

Some of the 10 tales collected here involve burdensome family members; others a new lover or the possibility of one; one has a racial theme. Painfully humorous, ironic, and satiric, each story is realistic, bordering on surrealistic; they’re well-written and well crafted, with one exception. That story aside, Guterson’s stinginess with names for his most important characters gets confusing and annoying in an otherwise first-rate collection.

Go to my blog:

Have Words--Will Write 'Em

and then to the Boston Globe.

--Joe

[Riya · Rating 4 out of 5]

I loved the realness of the stories in Problems with People. For better or worse Gutterson lays his characters bare, lets us peep into their private lives, glimpse that which makes their hearts tick and their souls weep. This morning I chose this book thinking that I would read a short story or two and move on with my day, save the rest for later. Not being a novel, I didn't think it would suck up my attention, force me to read chapter after chapter until the day was almost done. There is, after all, closure after a short story. You can close the book and move along. Except each story enticed me to read another and then another and here I am.

[Stephen Gallup · Rating 5 out of 5]

David Guterson always impresses me. This collection of stories is as uniformly good as any of his novels (of which I believe I've read all). By good, I mean the descriptive passages absolutely pull me into the moment, there's variety in the narrative voice, the dialog is utterly natural, and the subject matter is significant.

If there's a weakness, from my perspective, it's that many of these compositions are closer to being dramatic portraits of scenarios, as opposed to traditional stories in which a problem is addressed. I understand such is the trend. I began noticing it long ago in The New Yorker. And I'm not exactly opposed to it. It's just that I look for active human agency. It's definitely present in some of these pieces, less so in others.

A quick summary:

"Paradise" concerns a mature couple who've met on a dating website. (She's a divorcee, and he would be too except his wife died before leaving him.) Despite a certain amount of self-consciousness, they find themselves sufficiently compatible to depart one rainy weekend for a getaway to a mountain lodge. What ensues brought to mind James Joyce's famous story "The Dead." (I haven't read that classic in years but feel confident in saying this is a worthy remake.)

"Tenant" involves a youngish landlord who yearns to get to know the young female who is now renting a condo where he'd previously lived. He knows it's important to minimize contact with her and to remain impersonal, but he wants more. Even so, when she expresses polite interest in him, he passes up the opportunity to share anything.

Pilanesberg" has a brother visiting his sister in rural South Africa. She's obviously dying of cancer, but they don't talk about that. He's interested in photographing the wildlife and enjoying impala steaks. They both act as if the situation is normal, but there's an inescapable sense that everything in this setting is profoundly wrong. The sister's illness mirrors an outer situation in which human involvement has caused the animals to be "apparently psychotic," and the interface between blacks and whites is scarcely functional. Nelson, the brother, observes everything and photographs everything, thinking "what else could he do?" The choice of his name has to be intentional.

"Politics" concerns a Western visitor to Nepal during a general strike. He has a comfortable room at the Hyatt Regency, but ventures out into the chaos of the streets in order to see his estranged wife, who is badly injured and in a local hospital. To reach her, he must find a way past barricades set up by "Maoists" (who "would operate under a different name if the response of the West was important to them, but the response of the West was not important"), and he succeeds in that only with help from a very clever boy who has emerged from "a camp where people lived under tarps, plastic, and cardboard."

"Feedback" is possibly my favorite, although it's also the one that made me most uncomfortable. In it, a self-important high school teacher has a chance encounter with a former colleague, of whom it was once rumored there'd been some kind of indiscretion involving a student. She snubs him, of course. In the classroom, she challenges her students to make value judgments. Is affirmative action good? But in the end, having learned those old rumors about the former colleague were false, she's suddenly unable to say whether anything is good or bad.

"Hot Springs" is a character study involving a middle-aged man driving his wife and his elderly parents to a resort. Anyone who has at some point felt trapped with difficult relatives will relate to this, but there's not much of a narrative arc.

"Krassavitseh" presents a son who is taking his Jewish father back to Germany to visit sites he'd known as a child, before the Holocaust. They've hired a local guide, and as in "Tenant" the son wrestles with an attraction to her while striving to keep things aboveboard. The father meanwhile continues to emit expressions of hatred for everything German.

"Shadow" is about an elderly man presented with a fleeting opportunity to visit with a son he has not seen in over six years. To do that he must fly from Seattle to Alabama, which turns out to be a challenge for him, due to a recently discovered neurological problem.

"Photograph" is a picture of grief. A family's son was lost at sea (specifically, while working on a fishing boat in a storm, as described to the stricken family by the boat's captain). The action is mostly in the captain's narration, but there is also memory of the boy, and inability of the parents to support each other in their misery.

"Hush" might ultimately be my favorite. The dialog is read-aloud fun, but the story is touching. And yes, this one is indisputably a story.

There are common threads connecting many of these pieces. As in Guterson's other writing, the setting is usually in the Pacific Northwest. Young people—the characters’ children or grandchildren, and in once case a spouse—tend to have gone far away (Guam, Bolivia, Bosnia) to do strange and perhaps dangerous things. Several narrators find themselves being driven in a car. "Paradise" begins with the woman on I-5 "staying in the right lane with ample braking distance, keeping her hands at nine and three on the wheel." In "Pilanesberg," Nelson’s sister "was a nerve-wracking driver, not because she wasn't careful but because she was too careful, forcing other travelers to use the oncoming lane to make high-speed passes." Often, those not being driven are being guided in some other way or have their fate in the hands of someone else.

That at least is my initial response. This is a book that bears a second reading.

[Eva Steepe · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was an interesting read about people with very complex situations. I wished it could have been a bit more relatable but the nuanced stories made it difficult for readers to fully see themselves in the stories.

[Mary Jo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Snapshots of peoples lives. Clear, concise and rich.

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl · Rating 2 out of 5]

I think I'll stick with David Guterson's novels. Overall, I wasn't impressed with this short story collection. The only inclusion that had enough depth was the German story, Krassavitseh.

Favorite Passages:

Paradise
"Both Sides Now"?
It's possible to go there if your mood's right.

Pilanesberg
At dawn, he went out onto the porch with his camera. He liked dawn now, in the middle of his life.

Feedback
"I like and respect him, but he has a hard time with reality."

Krassavitseh
"Berlin," she said, "is full of ghosts."
_______

In other words, the present obscured the past . . .
_______

Erika said sternly, "This is not right - where is their teacher?" and "Germans simply go on with their lives as if they had every right to be ignorant," and "We don't have the right to be eating our strudel, and there should not be Somali women serving us at tables. I'm sorry, you don't do what Germans did and just go on always talking about your guilt and building more museums and memorials. What you do is, you do your own dishes, and also you give every single thing back, all of the linens and the townhouses stolen, you give back the strudel, you teach your children to give back the strudel, this is the punishment, and we should serve the long sentence, not a single German should be indifferent, and let those who say I am guilt-obsessed tell it to the murdered six million."
"Agreed," he said. "But they're dead."
________

In the wind and the gradually fading light, she looked to him, though wan, committed - committed to the sense of idealists he'd known, like his daughter, the pediatric epidemiologist. He himself had just made money. Not that money was bad. You could only give it away if you had it. But this Erika Wolf, from a city of Germany banks, from a family of rich Germans, wanted something else from life.

Shadow
Maybe from now on he'd see him just in dreams, and hear his voice exclusively on the telephone, at long intervals - obscured, disembodied. Would he even know him if he saw him again? Would he recognize his son for who he was?

Photograph
It was too real to be imagined.

Hush
"How'd you end up walking dogs?"
"I'm a country song."
"Which?"
"All of them."
"Drunk, broke, driftin', divorced, half dead, just outa jail, hungover, beat up, cheated on, and - a cheater yourself."


_______________________
Lyrics of a song I really like, mentioned in David Guterson's short story, Paradise:

BOTH SIDES NOW by Joni Mitchell
Rows and flows of angel hair
And ice cream castles in the air
And feather canyons everywhere
I've looked at clouds that way

But now they only block the sun
They rain and snow on everyone
So many things I would've done
But clouds got in my way

I've looked at clouds from both sides now
From up and down, and still somehow
It's cloud illusions, I recall
I really don't know clouds at all

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels
The dizzy dancin' way you feel
As every fairy tale comes real
I've looked at love that way

But now it's just another show
You leave 'em laughin' when you go
And if you care, don't let them know
Don't give yourself away

I've looked at love from both sides now
From give and take, and still somehow
It's love's illusions, I recall
I really don't know love at all

Tears and fears and feeling proud
To say "I love you" right out loud
Dreams and schemes and circus crowds
I've looked at life that way

But now old friends are acting strange
They shake their heads, they say I've changed
Well, something's lost, but something's gained
In living every day

I've looked at life from both sides now
From win and lose and still somehow
It's life's illusions, I recall
I really don't know life at all

I've looked at life from both sides now
From up and down, and still somehow
It's life's illusions, I recall
I really don't know life at all

[Christina Hirko · Rating 1 out of 5]

Having been spoiled by collections of short stories from other authors like Murakami, I found this book to be woefully uninspired. The stories are so similar in characters and scenarios that it’s blatantly obvious to come from the same mind, but in a boring and uninspiring way—either an old cranky Jewish person who embarrassed their agnostic and socially nervous adult child, or some lawyer of sort or mention of South Africa or Washington state: the author stuck perhaps too close to what they know because most of these stories could read from the same character, same lifetime and therefore adds no credence to the book’s promise of diversity and differing view points. Also, the “problems” that the characters deliberate are mostly minuscule social anxiety nerves—“oh wow I hope my interaction with this person briefly wasn’t too weird”. The order of the short stories is also abysmal—why lead with such boring and similar stories in the front of the book if not to encourage less idiotic readers as myself to give up on the book? I’ll admit I thought the last few stories were amongst the best—the final two in particular had decent enough ending lines whereas I thought the front half of the book ended on weak lines. In general, the writing ‘feels’ like it comes from a good author—like the imitation of a skilled craftsman who rambles to present the setting and scene of his story; who might prose on about unnecessary things that don’t add to the message but are still of interest. The writing and set up in these stories were like half-baked attempts at that. It tried to appear grounded but actually was weak and boring and lacked all of the promised insight that the book’s blurb would suggest it has.

[Jenni V. · Rating 4 out of 5]

I always seem to start off the year with high ratings for books which makes sense because I'm reading ones I received as Christmas gifts.

The title led to this fun interaction: sitting in the waiting room while my daughter had physical therapy, a chatty woman asked what I was reading. I held it up and said, "Problems with People"...conversation ended there. :)

With short story collections, I usually start off making notes on each story because sometimes I review each story individually and sometimes I review the book as a whole. In this case, I seemed to be repeating myself after each story so I'm going to just sum up how I felt about the book.

Even though the stories were so different and would sound insignificant or boring if I tried to describe them, they all held my interest. Maybe it's because a lot of his characters overthink things like I do so the constant inner monologues felt familiar, or maybe it's because I love people-watching and these felt like little snippets of peeking into someone's life, but I was absorbed even though they weren't really about anything.

I felt like the stories ended well but I also would've read more. I would easily read a full-length book by him (which I guess I did in a way since all the stories are by him).

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[David Curry · Rating 5 out of 5]

In his 2014 collection PROBLEMS WITH PEOPLE, David Guterson returns to the short story, the form with which he made his impressive book debut in 1989. This time around, he ventures farther than usual from the Washington State locales that have dominated his fiction,. but his focus remains on the elusive bonds between human beings.

The final story in the collection, “Hush,” will stay in your mind long after you’ve finished it, in part because of the simultaneously eloquent and borderline inarticulate exchange between deteriorating retiree Lou and Vivian, the middle-aged woman who becomes his dog walker.

After his dog has to be euthanized, Lou lets Vivian know he still needs a helper for other reasons:

“Okay,” said Lou. “I need someone to drive me over to UPS and pick up a package they’re holding.”



“I’m not getting involved in anything illegal.”

“Come on,” said Lou. “I’m geriatric here. The most illegal thing I get into is cutting tags from mattresses. With dull scissors.”



Vivian agrees to be Lou’s helper, and the story ends with her visiting him, finally nearly incommunicative, in a hospice. In that memorable scene, Guterson takes an admirably huge risk and reaches one of his rarest and finest moments of —what else can I call it? — human understanding.

[Paul · Rating 4 out of 5]

I realized after reading the first two stories this week that I had read this before, maybe three years ago. No matter, even though I have seldom read a book twice, this was so worth it. Wonderful and interesting stories that dive into relationships both close and casual. My favorites were Paradise, Krassavitseh and especially Tenant with its slightly creepy and voyeuristic but mesmerising description of Lydia Williams.

[Sheila · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoyed the short stories but I also felt some lacking or something missing.
Each story was very well written but some left me just wanting a little more, others puzzled me and then there were others that I felt moved me or relatable.
However I gave this book three stars because I do love the writing and plan on reading cedars on snow.

[S'hi · Rating 3 out of 5]

I felt most of these stories were delivered in a kind of monotone until the last one, Hush. Perhaps it was the contrast that lifted this to another level. But the dialogue between a man and woman shifted the interior world of the preceding stories to find a real connection between the character and therefore also for the audience.

[Hill · Rating 3 out of 5]

One of those books that you're not sure how it will impact until you give it a little time. It might be that you think about one or more of these stories again and again from time to time. If that's the case, probably deserves a rating bump. Or you might not think about any again at all. The last story was particularly good.

[John · Rating 4 out of 5]

A thin volume of ten nice tight short stories giving little vignettes of a wide variety of private lives, often in unique settings. Each one gives you something to think about. Especially about making too quick assumptions about people, their lives, what they are thinking, etc. Good read.

[Kathleen · Rating 4 out of 5]

While in Seattle for extended stay, public library allowed us access. I chose this collection of stories from local author as I loved reading many of Guterson's novels. Fun to read stories set in the surrounding Washington areas. Perfect book turned many tedious public transit ventures into jaunts.

[Vincent · Rating 5 out of 5]

Profoundly emotional and emotionally profound. Each of Guterson's stories left me with a chilling sense of open closure—they all seemed to end at a point of painful retrospective thought, a lull in the middle—the middle, which is oftentimes the most desperately harrowing part of any story.

[Martin Hamilton · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some hits. Some misses. This collection of short stories showcases Guterson's writing talent and each story reflects people just trying to connect with one another.

[Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

Unique.

[Olga Brycht · Rating 4 out of 5]

Enjoyed.

[Katie · Rating 3 out of 5]

collection of stories

[William Fricke · Rating 3 out of 5]

Written for middle-age people that want to relate to other awkward middle-aged people.