You Must Be This Happy to Enter, by Elizabeth Crane

“She can get kind of irritated,” Elizabeth Crane writes, “with the whole metaphor thing they seem to be all about.” Crane is writing about Betty the Zombie, the eponymous protagonist of the second entry in You Must Be This Happy to Enter, a wickedly smart, hilarious, and ultimately devastating new collection of short stories, out in February from Punk Planet, an imprint of Akashic Books.” Read the review at the Village Voice.