RaveThe L MagazinePierce is a classicist in fabulist’s clothing: He constructs fantastical conceits and intricate plots, and then places in them quotidian characters with profoundly human problems. The result is a collection of stories that are as wondrous and dazzling as the most imaginative fiction being published today, and as wrenchingly emotional as it sometimes is to just be alive ... The tension between faith and science—one type of understanding and another—is a seam stitching these stories together ... Radiantly imaginative, brilliant and unexpected, wry and moving and funny.
