Michael Steeves's review of What we talk about when we talk about love

Michael Steeves reviewed What we talk about when we talk about love by Raymond Carver

Raymond Carver: What we talk about when we talk about love (Paperback, 1989, Vintage Books)

In his second collection of stories, as in his first, Carver's characters are peripheral people--people …

A treatise on dysfunction and toxic masculinity

3 stars

This book is a collection of Carver short stories, including the titular "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love". All of them feature some sort of loving relationship, usually breaking due to dysfunction (almost always helped along by toxic masculinity).

An OK read that went fairly fast (though because I didn't keep reading consistently I had a bit of a gap after the loan expired). I'm not really sure what it was trying to say other than "There's a lot of different ways to shoot yourself in the foot" though.