Kalfus opts for maintaining a thread of knowing humor throughout, a remarkably unchilly irony.
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Kalfus does all of this in a story told from the point of view of a character very different from himself, heartening in this age of autobiographical fiction.
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The real stunner in this collection, though, is "No Grace on the Road, " in which all of Kalfus' diverse writerly strengths are summoned to create a potent corker of a story.