Critical Praise

"Achingly intelligent....[David Means] stands among our most gifted younger writers."

——The New York Times

"Means’s stories tug at our most entrenched fears of what life could become with a single misstep, each one harder than the last to look away from."

——Vogue

"An imaginative and penetrating collection."

——Publishers Weekly

"A darkly comic cache of stories...impressively inventive."

——Elle