Critical Praise

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

——The New York Times

"An imaginative and penetrating collection."

——Publishers Weekly

"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

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

——Elle