RaveThe Gay and Lesbian ReviewPublished as part of the \'Plonsker Series\' after winning the Madeleine P. Plonsker Emerging Writers Prize, this hard-to-categorize collection by JD Scott is a literate, genre-bending blend of fairy tale and fantasy. When the mixture works (occasionally it doesn’t), it seems effortless and magical ... surprising and exhilarating. Scott’s prose is both adept and poetic: a woman’s eyes are \'oceancold\'; a drunk shouts in \'vodka glossolalia.\' In the sly, coming-of-age novella that ends the collection, the entire world has become a mall, while the narrator tries to ignore the numerous magical and literal archetypes that keep attempting to lure him away from his job. Writes the author: \'Surely that can’t be real, but I’ve heard about magic, how it could destroy our stores, just like that, if you let it in.\'
