Toni Graham

The Suicide Club by Toni Graham is a collection of linked stories about those left behind after a loved one's suicide. It is also about the ways we as humans deal with life in all it's ups and downs.

Graham's writing is concise and often just plods through portions of the stories. When I say this, I actually mean plod as a positive, for that accurately describes how these characters survive day to day. The style sets the atmosphere ideally and the characters are, for lack of a better phrase, well-roundedly flat. They have chosen to live as flat and Graham rounds out that flatness so we can grasp their nuances.

This is what was once called a short story cycle (yeah, that dates me, I know) in that each story is complete yet together they tell a larger story. They are not simply linked but create a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.

Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via NetGalley.… (mais)