All the Names They Used for God: Stories

All the Names They Used for God: Stories by Anjali Sachdeva, 256 pages.

Sachdeva's first book of stories contain's some beautiful work. The collection starts with the story "The World by Night," and it is eerie and odd, with a lonely woman wandering around a strange underworld. Continuing with "Glass Lung" which was another strange and off-kilter story, and then on with "Logging Lake," a story that filled me with a strange sort of dread. It was difficult for me to read this story about a man and his new girlfriend, both pretending to match the online the profiles that brought them together, and whose lives are permanently altered at a lonely campsite when the wolves come out at night, but it turned out to be a story well worth reading.
With her other stories like "Anything You Might Want," showing the difficult choices and grim regret of an almost ordinary life to the creepily dystopian "Manus," the collection shows the author's impressive range and dazzlingly creative imagination.