We have a forgettable white suburban woman who is filmed while being a total 'Karen'. This was easily my least favourite story. Although all three narratives come across as somewhat realistic, and they do touch upon on relevant topics, they ultimately felt superficial, merely skimming the surface of the characters, dynamics, issues they were centring on. Two of the stories were probably meant to make the reader cringe, and although they kind of succeeded, they did not really have any interesting to say. Sadly, I did not find the three stories collected in Help Yourself to be as memorable or evocative as the ones in her previous collection. Even if I wasn't the biggest fan of Curtis Sittenfeld's Eligible I did really like her collection of short stories, You Think It, I'll Say It, so I was looking forward to read Help Yourself.
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