Sometimes you just need a collection of short stories about an old lady who uses her cleverness and people’s assumptions about the abilities of old people to punish the bad and get away with it. Plot: Maud is 88. She lives alone and has no real friends or family. Still, she’s quite content. She is healthy as an ox, has financial independence, and travels for fun for months at a time. Only now and again, she comes across some fucking piece of shit garbage person […]
“No, this had nothing to do with surrogate grannies or sex. So what was going on?”
An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten
