Dactyl Review

The Orange Suitcase: Stories by Joseph Riippi

Posted in just literary fiction, short story collection by Nicolle Elizabeth on July 13, 2011

Joe Riippi’s second book, The Orange Suitcase (Ampersand Books, 85 pages) is a linked collection of literary fictions which reads with just as much heart as his previous novel Do Something, Do Something, Do Something. If possible, The Orange Suitcase
is even more of a lamentation on the world, in general and specific, while being a writer, filtering like a writer. “A story can still wake you in the middle of the night seventeen years later, telling you how even though it’s been on its own for seventeen years, now it’s in trouble, and now your own story has its own story about how it got pregnant one weekend in Vegas…” (more…)

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