RaveHyperallergic... represents [Keret\'s] signature style; the stories are absurd, tragic, surreal, and often dramatic, with surprising and shocking twists. While the stories are funny, they all glimpse the profoundness of prosaic human lives ... A reader can gain much — not least, a good laugh — from even a casual reading of the stories in Fly Already. But it is by rereading them a second or a third time, ruminating on each one, that one will find in Keret’s nuanced storytelling its great importance to our times.
