Critical Praise

"Smart, funny, and moving....A gifted and gusty writer....this is what a first collection of stories should be. "

——Barbara Fisher, Boston Globe

"Extraordinary....Beard is writing not with the romanticism of a girl looking up at the stars, but with the brilliant cold light of the stars looking down at us. "

——Ted Anton, Chicago Tribune

" A luminous, funny, heartbreaking book of essays about life and its defining moments. "

——Meredith Kahn, Harper's Bazaar

" Beard remembers (or imagines) her childhood self with an uncanny lucidity that startles. "

——Laura Miller, New York Times

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