Creatures of Habit Stories

"[A]mbitious but frustratingly uneven....[T]he stories divide into two distinct types: those in which smart-alecky female narrators make mincemeat of men (and a few women) whose sins hardly seem inhuman, and those in which the narrators drop their pose of superiority to give us kinder, keener and ultimately more interesting takes on what makes people tick....We can only hope that next time out, McCorkle will go easier on the irony and cynicism and pursue...quiet, open-minded watchfulness, which is so clearly her strong suit."McCorkle, Jill is the author of 'Creatures of Habit Stories', published 2001 under ISBN 9781565122567 and ISBN 1565122569.