Praise for "Farewell Navigator"
"Zumas gives socially awkward, mysteriously gifted and self-destructive outcasts spellbinding, unflinching voice in her debut collection. ... It's a powerful, irresistible collection."
–"Publishers Weekly"
"Almost no one does the right thing–or, at least, the expected thing–in these stories. You may find them funny (there's just enough humor to keep them upbeat of Carson McCullers), but there's also a very good chance they will unzip you, unsettle you. ... Synapses snap, crackle and pop while you're reading this strange collection."
–"The Los Angeles Times"
"It's a rare writer who can bring us closer to people we might cross the street to avoid."
–"L.A. Weekly"
"Attention unrequited lovers, sisters of suicidal brothers, children of the legally blind: you are not alone. Leni Zumas understands your quiet agony and describes it with such wry, unflinching familiarity that even the gory details ring true. If dark
