This is a collection of flash fiction that spans Meg Pokrass' multi-decade career. And Pokrass is quite skilled at flash fiction - some stories are merely one paragraph long yet evocative and thought-provoking. Overall, though, I ultimately didn't enjoy this collection because it seemed to reveal a lot of internalized misogyny and fatphobia. Does Meg Pokrass hate women? Or do most of her protagonists exist in a realm where impressing men and competing with each other over said men is the primary goal?

Thank you @dzancbooks for the advanced reader copy of First Law of Holes in exchange for my honest review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.