"Smart, funny, and moving...A gifted and gutsy writer...This is what a first collection of stories should be."--Barbara Fisher, Boston Globe
"Extraordinary...Beard is writing not with the romanticism of a girl looking up at the stars, but with the brilliant cold light of the stars looking down on us."--Ted Anton, Chicago Tribune
"Beard remembers (or imagines) her childhood self with an uncanny lucidity that startles."--Laura Miller, New York Times Book Review