Netanella's Reviews > Stag

A lonely white guy befriends a tortoise at a divorce party in the desert which he attends as a last minute plus-one. The story is darkly comic, as it should be with such a plot line. It's made more so by the reveal of the main character's sad backstory and the reason for his own divorce years ago.

Karen Russell is the only author in the "Trespass" collection of shorts whose works I'm not familiar with. I will need to rectify that lack, as I enjoyed this story.