Bethany (Beautifully Bookish Bethany)'s Reviews > Stag

An anonymous middle-aged man attends a divorce party (is this really a thing people do? If so, why??) with a younger woman he met in Vegas. At the party things slowly fall apart while the pet tortoise that was supposed to be a symbol of the couple's fidelity wanders around. It's got a surrealist tone and objectively the writing is fine, but I just did not care about this sad middle-aged man who is selfish and awful. I think this stands out as being the most "something we've seen before" of the collection and it fits oddly with the rest.