RaveThe Star Tribune... [a] tense, character-rich thriller ... Smart, vulnerable and too quick to make life-alteringly bad decisions, Elisabeth is a fascinating character ... the propulsive How Quickly She Disappears...rarely pauses to reflect. But it’s representative of how deeply we connect to the protagonist of Fleischmann’s assured page-turner, in which every plot development hinges on grieving Elisabeth’s yearning for a truth that has eluded her for almost all of her life.
Denis Johnson
RaveThe StarTribune\"Its narrator is a copywriter who strings together a series of brief-but-vivid vignettes from his unhappy life (a sketch of a dinner party at which everyone tries to name their favorite moment of silence, for instance). Taken together, these vignettes reveal him so fully that when we get to the end, and he mentions that an ex-wife has just called him to say she\'s dying, it seems perfectly in keeping with his character that he can\'t figure out which of his ex-wives it was. The author of these five remarkable tales may be dead, but his work will remain with us for a very long time.\
