[A] witty, winning collection...The DNA in these stories may be old, but Galchen has uncovered a new register and a new space for the domestic and the fantastic to meet. There might be no better model for looking to the past in order to move forward. –The New York Times (The New Vanguard: Remarkable Books by Women That Are Changing the Way We Read and Write Fiction in the 21st Century)
"To read Rivka Galchen is to enter a wonderland where the bizarre and the mundane march in unlikely lockstep." –
Michael Lindgren, The Washington Post "Spectral, demanding stories from a brilliant young writer." –
Elle "Galchen's sentences catch your attention and hold it with a tight fist . . . Delicious stories." –
Alan Cheuse, NPR.org "Skillful, imaginative, often funny . . . In that grand tradition of American innovators, perhaps Ms. Galchen's greatest artistic creation is herself." –
The New York Times Book Review