I believe that “A Better Place” is one of the best short stories within this collection. After reading all of the other stories of characters who are trapped in their own lives, it was exciting to see 
one of her characters trying to escape from theirs. “A Better Place” was filled with the aspects of other stories from hidden trauma, fear, and (in all honesty) a slight insane main character. Yet, to me this is what made it so inherently entertaining to read.
The dream of finding the better place fuels the narrator to keep living, but her methodology behind how to get there is way off. The dynamic between this family of three makes me curious of how it came to be. The mother has trauma of her own, along with being a widow with twins, and Waldemar seems so lost yet knows where he belongs. Urszula is the outlier of this family who dreams of elsewhere.
When I really think about this story and its characters, I started to realize that compared to the rest of the short stories, it is the complete opposite. The narrators of the previous stories may hate their lives and want things to change, but they never actually try to change things because in some way they are content with how their lives are. However, Urszula wants to be somewhere else so badly, that she developed her hate and resentment of the world she is already in. This desire to be anywhere else is leading her to kill a man, hate her own mother, and abandon the sibling love her brother has towards her. Urszula did not have an outstandingly horrible life compared to the other narrators within this book, but yet she is so ready to give up everything she does have.
The interaction between this story and the other stories within this book is truly an interesting one. As I had previously stated two blog posts ago, the title of this book ties into every single characters’ longing to be in another world.