Critical Praise

"Simon Van Booy knows a great deal about the complex longings of the human heart, and he articulates those truths in his stories with pitch-perfect elegance. Love Begins in Winter is a splendid collection, and Van Booy is now a writer on my must-always-read list."

—Robert Olen Butler, Pulitizer Prize-winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain and Severance

"Pitch-perfect… Convincingly shows how love rights the world."

—Kirkus Reviews

"Love Begins in Winter brings to life the wistfulness of youth and the possibilities of young love with clear and graceful prose."

—Jamie Saul, author of Light of Day

"The stories of Love Begins in Winter are stylistically brilliant and emotionally beautiful. I found myself gasping, literally gasping, at surprises so perfectly attuned as to be inevitable. Simon Van Booy is an extraordinary writer, and this is a book to be read and reread again and again."

—Binnie Kirshenbaum, author of The Scenic Route