“The stories that work have the fire and ice that loom over life and the magic that comes from a good story well and craftily told.”
—Boston Globe
“Each story is uncommonly good … surprising, lively writing and believably human characters… Banks has a terrific eye, mordant yet affectionate, for the bric-a-brac and the pathos of the American dream.”
—Washington Post Book World
“Mesmerizing… There are times when Banks’s prose fairly dazzles.”
—Publishers Weekly