Finished this a couple weeks back but never got around to writing it up. I’ve read a considerable amount this year, but made it through only half this list. Oh well.

An interesting collection of short stories, filled with many motifs (shipwrecks, wood worms, gopher wood, and water to name a few). Stories compare and contrast one another, narrators change, and tone moves from mildly comic to tragic and back to some center. There is a deepening of questions, of motives, of ideas but I can never seem to land them into something concrete. Overall, a good read but I’d recommend other works by Barnes over this.