Kissing in Manhattan

A delicious collection of intertwining short stories. Quick read!
(I allow myself to read for fun during the commute to work-school-home.)

Some of my favourite passages.

“By thirty Donna felt mostly pity for men. Their eyes always seemed starved or dead. They earned money, yet felt necessary to bungee jump or climb Tibetan mountains. Their biceps and laughter were ungodly strong, but, as far as Donna could see, men never used the full force of these strengths against women. This was cowardice, Donna felts. She wanted a man who could crush himself into her-psychically, sexually, utterly, daily- and never apologize.”

“You belong to a man”, said Ms. Vivian. “Your body is destined to belong to a man. That is your vocation…Donna expected Ms. Vivian’s words to come true. She expected a man- a cloven footed man, perhaps with the head of a goat- to throw open her bedroom door and roar and mount her. She’d fight this man with her claws, her intelligence, her body/ She would beg freedom, demand independence, but the man would work himself into her without mercy, and Donna would gasp and gasp, and finally, smile.”

“Nicole exudes an irrepressible spirit and generous, unguarded tenacity…and once she knows what she wants, she will pursue a thing…with a charmingly ruthless will.”