"Powerful . . . Fiction of a very high order . . . Frederick Busch at his best." — Los Angeles Times Book Review "[These] provocative tales center around relationships gone awry, families grappling with loss, and lonely men and women struggling with remnants of love ... What Busch ultimately serves is a heady and rewarding brew made up of people as real as ourselves, groping for and sometimes even discovering the comforts of love." — USA Today "Memorable . . . [The] stories leap off the page with astonishing resilience and vigor... Busch is a chronicler of domestic manners whose insights into family hierarchies transcend the factual to attain poetry and truth." — The Boston Globe