It Doesn’t Happen Like That

The short stories in It Doesn’t Happen Like That are to the point and laden with understatement and great wisdom concerningthe enforceability of life. She creates situations that live on in the reader like physical manifestations when the reading is done. But while Berg nails her realism to the reader’s mind, itremains important that people are often not what we expected them to be, and that events are triggered by unobvious causes. Thus the stories are lifted from everyday realism and become wise, precise reminders that life is a complex and wonderful thing.