Great. I had the same feeling of being unlikeable, even though the author links it to her age and I'm much younger.Read it here. It's just 3 paragraphs.http://muumuuhouse.com/dou.fiction2.html
Unferth is an excellent writer - after only two ventures into her works, I'd rank her among my favorites. Vacation has beautiful sentences, paragraphs, and movement. The mere snippets of characterization and action, touching base before flitting to the next, give the book momentum. She has mastered ...
I think you either share his taste in stories or you don't, and I don't. Most of the stories were very abstract and I'd say only a quarter dealt with the apocalypse in a traditional sense, the rest seemed to deal more with cataclysmic change in an individual's life. Only a few were character based...