Most of the stories are pacy and dialogue-heavy, so they slip down nicely just before a horrifying revelation makes them catch in your throat.
At least half the pieces here are as satisfying as Ingalls’s masterpiece Mrs Caliban, which in 1986 was named one of the 20 outstanding postwar US novels by the British Book Marketing Council, alongside the likes of Humboldt’s Gift, Invisible Man and Song of Solomon.
Ingalls had a prescient eye for subject matter: In the Act features a sex robot coming between a husband and wife (battling couples are fertile territory here) decades before Ian McEwan’s Machines Like Me.
The blackness of Ingalls’s vision is offset by brutal comedy and her pitch-perfect ear for an ending
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