If you love Tim Gautreaux stories, you'll love these.

And if you don't love Tim Gautreaux stories, you haven't read any yet.

It put me off that this collection has a few of his older stories that I've already read. But it turned out to be totally okay. Because most of the stories in this reasonably fat collection are new. And they're terrific.

And I was glad to read the old stories again.

I love how Gautreaux can put people together and have surprising things come out of their interactions.