by Max Ross :: posted on Aug. 07, 2008 - 11:36am
These angels are useless. The heavenly agents that populate Chris Adrian's new story collection,
A Better Angel, sit idly by their hapless wards, disappointed and impotent. Their existence, it seems, is incidental, and at times they are nothing more than a higher order of fuck-ups. Which somehow makes these angels strikingly believable.