The writing is rarely elaborate, relying mainly on the charm of its ideas or the smoothness of its storytelling to keep the reader's attention ... Nothing here is ever short of well-made and there are plenty of laughs. Despite the occasionally morbid subject matter, Millhauser's tone is never cynical or cold either. Even the deaths and disappearances have an otherworldly ... Read morequality about them, a gentleness which also feels like an awareness of the fact that beneath our fantasies lie our limitations and disappointments.
Times Literary Supplement
A superb testament to America's quirkiest short story writer, still on his game.
Kirkus starred review
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