Short Story Title: Small Worlds
Author: Gretchen Laskas
Book: American Girls About Town
Rating: 3 out of 5 horses
First Line:
"Marnie Haselton is going to Florida to have an affair with a a man she met on the Internet."
Marnie thinks having an affair will save her marriage that has been rocked by a miscarriage. She finds along the way that some of her friends have had affairs and explores what the affiar will mean to her marriage. She ends up in Disney World and we find that she is bored with her life and knowing what everyone at home is doing at this exact moment.
Review
I thought this one was ok, but struggled a lot with Marnie - why would she have an affair and why she thought her marriage was so bad. The writing did keep me entertained.
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