"Brenda Flanagan joins Marshall, Danticat, and Boadiba . . . Caribbean American women who've done so much to add new colors and rhythms to an American prose that can often be dull and grey. Whether she is writing about an elderly woman who has outlived her children, or penning a brilliant meditation on the word 'blight'--her stories, in particular 'The Green Card' about the quest of Loris to obtain American citizenship--will become American classics." --Ishmael Reed, writer

"This is a brilliant collection of short fiction . . . Brenda Flanagan embraces, bundles, and delivers the very best of what it means to be alive." --Al Young, poet, novelist, and screenwriter