Back at dinner, somebody said that the goose thinks it's a dog. No, it doesn't. It doesn't think it's a dog. The goose doesn't think. The goose just is. And what the goose is is goose. But goose is not goose, Robert thinks. Even the goose isn't goose.
In 'Good Trouble', the first story collection from Josehph O'Neill, author of 'Netherland', characters are forced to discover exactly who they are, and who they can never quite be: a dependable member of society, a protective husband, a mother to a semi-soft rind-washed cheese obsessive.
Brimming with dark and sympathetic humour, Good Trouble explores the maddening and secretly political space between thoughts and deeds, between men and women, between goose and not-goose.