Book Review: “There Is Something Inside, It Wants to Get Out”

Review by Tobias Carroll Madeleine McDonnell There Is Something Inside, It Wants to Get Out (Rescue Press, 79 p.) The three stories in Madeleine McDonnell’s short collection There Is Something Inside, It Wants to Get Out traffic in unease, upending familiar scenarios and tautly inverting certain expectations. These are slow-burning, unexpected explorations of family and morality. “Wife” derives its friction from the ways in which notions of family and matrimony are defined and challenged; “Physical Education” has a plot that […]

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