The Stories In 'Verge' Are Beautiful, But Don't Quite Satisfy
Lidia Yuknavitch's new story collection is weighed down by strangely predictable structures and obvious metaphors — but in places it's rivetingly insightful, and one story towers above the rest.
In reference to the sexless characters of her novel The Book of Joan, Lidia Yuknavitch once said that she didn't get rid of gender, but instead "flattened it out ... in a way that helped me focus a question." That worked for The Book of Joan. For Yuknavitch's new story collection Verge, it mostly doesn't.
is inhabited by people at the limits of society. A former addict invites an addict and street-walker into her presumably middle-class home in "Street Walker." A swimmer escaping a war-torn country swims a
