RaveThe Los Angeles Review of Books...[an] excellent debut collection ... It is as if the book is not only stories written by Lawson, but a collage made from these stories which ultimately poses to the reader a nearly answerable question. A puzzle in which each reader decides what the ending image will be; each reader gets to be a small god ...the author has created lives that are complex, maddening, baffling, filled with heart and breath and life.