“Fierce and astringent.”
—The New York Times Book Review

“Spare, insightful, and refreshingly candid.”
—O Magazine

“A debut collection of lean, sinewy prose
and tightly compressed emotional implications,
all related to matters of the heart.”
—Boston Review

“Louis is as interested in the internal debate
of her characters as in their actions, which gives
her stories an exquisite stillness.”
—The Detroit Free Press

“Stunning. Highly recommended.”
—Library Journal

“Louis’ style plumbs subtleties of form in a prose that’s
clipped yet richly descriptive. Her widely varying cast
wrestles with romantic love amidst cultural discomfort
to achieve stories of a lush, moving humanity.”
—Dennis Loy Johnson, Melville House

“Laura Glen Louis’s ‘Fur’ is a wholly singular performance,
a constantly surprising account of a wealthy widower’s
attachment to a girl who wants things. The story continually
renews itself in the freshness of their discoveries.”
—Tobias Wolff, introduction, Best American Short Stories

“In spare refreshing prose, Louis writes of characters
burned by love and searching for reprieve. It is easy
to see a gift for the compact form.”
—Publisher’s Weekly

“Louis’s stories are erotically charged not because of any
sexual content or nature, but because of the psychological
depth with which she reveals her characters.”
—Palo Alto Daily News

“Some of the pieces have an elegant, effective beauty.
A clearly talented author.” —Kirkus Reviews

“A major new talent in American fiction.”
—Robert Bausch

“Incendiary.” —James Landis

“There is an archetypal quality to her work in the way
many of her characters are made, and at times undone,
by love.” —Poets & Writers

“In her incandescent essay, Laura Glen Louis recounts
the year 1967, channeling the energy of the period
in a breathless memorial, an elegy to old crushes and
classmates, all either broken or changed forever in the
psychedelic crucible of the late sixties.”
—Missouri Review