RaveThe Portland MercuryThe stories intertwine what’s extraordinary and familiar in meaningful ways, taking on density and weight. In Hunt’s imaginative universe, that which is dark, dangerous, and peculiar menaces, but is often not the real threat. The stories subvert our notions of safety and hazard, light and dark ... While easy satisfaction is not on offer, reading pleasures abound in Hunt’s incisive and witty prose and characters who linger in the mind like acquaintances you hope to meet again ... Down to the familiarity of the story form, Hunt makes everything she touches strange, precarious, and unknowable.
Sallie Tisdale
RaveThe Portland MercuryViolation is not the sort of book you find yourself urgently pressing on others, saying, 'You have to read this next.' It's not zeitgeist-y or cool. There is a frank, artless quality to Tisdale's work, an antidote to the clickbait-y, flashy, sexy, knowing, voyeuristic, position-taking trend of much popular nonfiction. Rather than forwarding one of Tisdale's essays, you find yourself on the verge of telling others, 'You should meet this friend of mine who writes.'
