“I can’t remember when I last met a character as smart and open to the world as Thea. This book is a treat from beginning to end.”
—Elizabeth Stuckey-French

“I was delighted to spend time with Susan Jackson Rodgers, who exudes passion, poetry, humor, hard-won wisdom, resilience, and grit.”
—Trudy Lewis

“A poetic, hilarious and haunting
collection.” —Susan Shapiro

“I couldn’t stop reading these
stories.” —Alice Mattison

“…these strange, lovely, elegantly spare, gorgeously unpredictable
stories will delight and save you.” —Melanie Rae Thon

“Fifteen stories are ingeniously folded into this slender volume. All are short, some even tiny, but each is a complete, well-formed entity. … [A] remarkable first collection from a very interesting, talented author.”

—Booklist