Manuel Gonzales's new collection of short stories, The Miniature Wife, will stick with you. The places and characters will ring daily in your mind and occur to you with neither invitation nor impetus. And when they do, you'll let your mind rest on those thoughts and think them for a while, maybe for whole blocks of the street you're walking down. Sure, that kind of second life is what pretty much all art aims to accomplish, but it's a surprise that The Miniature Wife achieves it.
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