I don’t like short stories. Just when I get into the characters or the story, they end. I didn’t realize before I picked up Neel Mukherjee’s A State of Freedom that it was short stories: I thought the tales were interconnected. So, I kept waiting for them to get connected. And, though the connection came around in the end, overall, I was disappointed. Mukherjee’s writing was good and some of the stories were interesting, but overall, I would have given this one a pass.