RaveKenyon ReviewA story keeps you uneasy and off-kilter, and maybe no short story writer (other than Mavis Gallant) keeps you more on your toes than Deborah Eisenberg ... What is perhaps most intensified this go-around is her concern with the possibilities and limitations of language itself ... The ingrained absoluteness of privilege is one of her greatest, bleakest themes ... \'Your Duck is My Duck\' is, among other things, a stunning auto-critique—a laying-bare of the inefficacy and impotence of the kind of politically-engaged art of which the story itself is an example ... One of the miracles of a Deborah Eisenberg story is the unusually acute sense that the story is being incarnated as you’re reading it, a remarkable present-tense quality that comes from how synced up she is with her characters’ consciousness.
