RaveNew York Review of BooksTalty... inscribes his characters’ inner landscapes with the violence enacted upon their exterior landscapes, showing how difficult it is for them to flourish in such an environment ... There’s a restrained tenderness in Talty’s writing, and in how his characters show compassion ... Instead of relying on harmful tropes, Talty restyles them again and again, holding cultural assumptions up to a light box, then turning out the light.
