“Perfection … many deserve inclusion among the best American stories of the past 20 years.” — Boston Globe
“Effortlessly engaging...that closing the book feels like pushing the door shut on some clamorous party.” — New York Times Book Review
“Beautiful ... a delight to read.” — San Francisco Chronicle
Grade: ‘A’ “Read just a few of these staggeringly literate and well-observed short fictions and you’ll soon realize that it’s not only God who dwells in the details.” — Entertainment Weekly
“The book for which Bausch will be remembered....A fine, fat collection of 42 tales.” — Kirkus Reviews (Starred)
“A memorable collection.” — Boston Herald
“A master storyteller at his finest.” — Charlotte Observer
“Bausch [is] a magical storyteller.” — St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“Bausch writes about things that matter.” — Raleigh News & Observer
“A literary treasure.” — Richmond Times-Dispatch
“Precision of thought, the philosophical framework of a true aesthetic, pervades these stories.” — Village Voice
“Bausch draws the reader into lives that seem real. His characters look and sound like ... ourselves.” — Seattle Times
“Richard Bausch is, simply, one of our greatest short story writers.” — Andrea Barrett
“Richard Bausch is a master of the short story.” — New York Times Book Review
“No writer has a finer insight into the delicate nuances of the human heart than Richard Bausch.” — Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
