This is a work of finely calibrated emotional registers that will set the bar high for Cain's next book.

—Publishers Weekly

Cain takes fringy characters and makes them lovable...each tale is served up with comedy and pizzazz.

Ms. Magazine

(Great Reads for Fall 2011)

This is a gripping, touching, powerful collection of stories.

—The Nervous Breakdown

(Best Books of 2011)

Readings in 2012

Wednesday, January 11, 7:00 pm

KGB Bar

85 East 4th St

New York, NY

Thursday, February 23

Colorado State University

Fort Collins, CO

February 29 to March 3

AWP Conference

Chicago, IL

30 years of Award-Winning Fiction: the Drue Heinz Literature Prize (reading)

and

Home Sweet Home: Short Story Collections and Small Presses (panel discussion)

Sunday, March 4, 4pm

Women & Children First

5233 N. Clark Street

Chicago, IL

Thursday, March 15

Bowling Green State University

Bowling Green, OH

March 22-24

SMU Litfest

Southern Methodist University

Dallas, TX

Thursday, April 12

Why There Are Words

Sausalito, CA

Saturday, April 14

Literary Orange

UC Irvine

Tuesday, April 19

UC Davis

Davis, CA