Have to admit I was not wild about this collection of short stories by Amy Bloom. The first story, Love Is Not a Pie, about a family dealing with the death of her mother, and her unusual relationshiop with two men, did move me to tears. But it was by far the best in a collection filled with phychologically troubled protagonists.
Bloom's characters suffer from every physchological trouble in the book - which is understandable since she spends most of her time as a practicing phychologist. Her characters deal with low self esteem, guilt, sexual abuse, and grief. But rather than being compelling, I felt most of these characters were presented in a distant and almost clinical way. Dominant themes in the stories included infidelity, which featured prominently, and motherhood. And the most interesting stories approached the intersection of the two.
The stories were arranged in a logical order and flowed from one to the next well. Still, I wasn't hooked - In my opinion, Come to Me was not the best short story collection in this years nominees.
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