Tenderly observantly incisively Edith Pearlman captures life on the page like few other writers. She is a master of the short story & this is a spectacular collection. ' Pearlman writes about the predicaments
- odd wry funny & painful
- of being human.. .[ Her] view of the world is large & compassionate delivered through small beautifully precise moments. Her characters inhabit terrain that all of us recognize one defined by anxieties & longing love & grief loss & exultation. These quiet elegant stories add something significant to the literary landscape.' The New York Times