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Seemingly a specialist in short-story reading recently, I should have come to Smith's dazzling virtuosity sooner. Only Eisenberg can match her variety, and even that's debatable. Who knew she'd be focused on Manhattanites for this tome? Great stylistic variety and the ethnicity of her protagonists as well. If she oversteps the injunction ("write what you know"), I can't tell.
— Jul 02, 2021 01:11PM
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Curt Barnes
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Having read only a couple of her short stories in the New Yorker, these were unexpectedly dazzling. First, she makes as good an American writer as an English one, for cognizance of our ways and expressions. Second, "Miss Adele and the Corsets" was so vividly dead-on for a match-up between a Black transvestite and a Jewish corset shopkeeper that I was left gasping. Crazy insightful.
— Jun 28, 2021 07:50AM
