RaveBOMB MagazineLeichter creates an insular, sometimes claustrophobic world only to stretch it, delicately, until it becomes seemingly limitless ... While Terrace Story is unafraid of realism and the discomfort of its relationships, this is still a Leichter novel: inserted into the second section of the book is a story-within-a-story ... Leichter understands the importance of incidental pleasure. What’s more, she, like the deepest surrealist authors, knows that supporting incidental pleasure is a rigorous task ... The pleasure and heartbreak of reading Leichter’s work: the knowledge that sometimes stories have no beginning or end.
