[Catlady]

Originally Posted by Bookworm_Girl

Here's a literary term which is new to me. Winesburg, Ohio is in the list of examples in addition to Dandelion Wine.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fix-up

I never heard the term either, and I'm not familiar with most of the books listed. Two that would fit, I think, but aren't listed are Shirley Jackson's Life Among the Savages and Raising Demons.

But in those books, Jackson kept to her gently humorous family stories; she didn't throw in "The Lottery" or "The Daemon Lover" or any of her other deeply unsettling stories as counterpoint. The family stories all have the same recognizable characters, the consistency of place and POV and mood, even though they were culled from years of magazine pieces and repackaged.