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This thing called life in Elizabeth McCracken’s ‘The Souvenir Museum’ By Joseph Peschel Globe Correspondent,Updated April 15, 2021, 1 hour ago Email to a Friend Associated Press Whether they take place in Ireland, Texas, Illinois, Amsterdam, or Scotland, the marvelous stories in “The Souvenir Museum,” Elizabeth McCracken’s impressive third story collection evoke moving depictions of marriage and parenthood, and love, betrayal, and loneliness. McCracken, who was bor...

Elizabeth McCrackens The Souvenir Museum begins with one of the funniest short stories Ive read in a long time. Its about a short, round American who meets her newish boyfriends angular English family all at once and utterly unprepared in damp Ireland, at the wedding of the middle of his three sisters. The Valerts, like most McCracken characters, are wonderfully eccentric, but they are also as chilly and off-putting as the weather. Hilariously so. McCracken, who is married to English-born writ...