Follow Me

by Paul Griner

In the wide-ranging stories of Follow Me, Paul Griner offers a view of America that is at once completely recognizable and completely surprising. Set in a country full of urban edginess, small-town deceit, and suburban frustrations and populated by desperate drifters, ingeniously cruel women, doctors who damage their own children, and aged car thieves, Griner's stories take the reader to the margins of American life. With candor, insight, and humor, Griner explores transience, trickery, fear, grief, love, and revenge - impulses and emotions that dominate and direct the lives of a broad assortment of well- and ill-meaning strugglers and schemers.

Genres: Fiction

Paperback

First published May 21, 1996

Reviews

[Brice · Rating 4 out of 5]

Having taken his creative writing class, I was not in the least bit surprised at the quality of the writing. The only issue I had with some of the stories was that they tend to rely on one extended metaphor: for instance clouds or grass... In neither story did I care much about what these metaphors represented, to me they were boring, unlike others in this collections that have you on the edge of your seat at times.

[Lauren · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm hesitant to give this collection 4 stars because the extended metaphors throughout some of the stories feel rather obvious. But Griner's story have a way of sticking with you--especially "Clouds" and "Grass" that are both melancholy and relatable.

[Z · Rating 1 out of 5]

Not much substance to it. Thoroughly disappointed.