In Progress

The stories that make up Catharine Leggett's masterly new collection, In Progress, demonstrate the writer's ability to convey, within the confines of a single narrative, the entirety of the lives of the girls and women who make up her subjects--unlikely narrators who are, nevertheless, heartbreakingly reliable. Just as each part of a hologram contains a particular perspective of the image, it also includes the entire object. So, too, do these stories. Chronic disappointment metastasizes int...