Too Much of the Wrong Thing"At first glance Claire Hopples stories appear delightfully off kilter, even laugh out loud funny, but the flashes of wisdom start early in this collection and they dont stop. This is a world of constant disorientation where people aim for connection and gamble on intimacy, no matter how precarious. Hopples small towns are in decline and her families are fragile. Everybody lives here: older relatives who unravel or disappear; a sibling tipping over