Our Strangers - Lydia Davis

"She is the shorter Proust among us. She has the sensitivity to track the stuff that is so evanescent it flies right by the rest of us. But as it does so it leaves enough of a trace that when you read her you do it with a sense of recognition." - Jonathan Franzen

"One of the most original minds in American fiction today."―Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker

"Sharp, deft, ironic, understated, and consistently surprising." --Joyce Carol Oates

"One of the best writers in America" - O, The Oprah Magazine