“Whether tragic or comic, haunting or plaintive, realistic or fantastic, these are extraordinary tales told with rare mastery.”
–Ron Hansen

“These stories have the spin and dazzle of exploded poems.  Theoretically sophisticated and technically accomplished, they use fresh and quirky humor to illuminate, in unexpected and often startling lights, the complicated ambiguities of women’s waking and dreaming lives.”
–Nancy Mairs

“The variety of voices and their presentations are a narratologist’s dream…[Brennan’s] literary offspring, and the community they create, will anger you, refuse to speak to you, and hold up a mirror to your face.  Not many storytellers are as fearless as Karen Brennan.”
—American Book Review

“Transcendence and transformation lie at the heart of this anthology.  Brennan’s women are survivors, and they know that life will go on for them no matter what.  Life will be what they make it.”
—Publishers Weekly

University of Massachusetts Press