Limbo and Other Places I Have Lived

<p>In an elegant and penetrating first short-story collection <em>Limbo and Other Places I Have Lived </em> Lily Tuck's characters travel to unknown exotic places and while there find themselves deeply immersed in observation -- of the natives the local customs the foreign landscape -- in an effort to discern some elemental truth about who they themselves are. Instead these women meet with disorientation confusion; they are disappointed by the people closest to them -- lovers husbands family members. Finally they arrive at the sometimes heartbreaking but ultimately optimistic realization that the answers they seek lie not in other people or places but within themselves. </p><p><em>Limbo and Other Places I Have Lived</em> is a brilliant collection from a writer of exceptional poise and insight.</p>