"Like some of the most satisfying storytellers of the past (Dubus has been compared to Chekhov), he is munificent, spinning out whole lifetimes and recounting events from many characters' viewpoints. For the lyricism and directness of his language, the richness and precision of his observations and the generosity of his vision, he is among the best." - Village Voice
These twenty-three stories represent the best work of one of the finiest and most emotionally revealing writers in America. Andre Dubus treats his characters–a bereaved father stalking his son's killer, a woman crying alone by her television late at night, a devout teenager writhing in the coils of faith and sexuality–with respect and terrifying compassion. He turns fiction into an act of witness.
"Dubus' characters resemble those of Raymond Carver... but the stories stand alone in their idiosyncratic spiritual cast, occasionally religious, more often expressive of devotion to the people he lives among." - The New York Times Book Review
"Dubus is the sort of writer who instructs the heart." - Atlantic Monthly
