Description: "Alissa Nutting builds a dark catalog of behavior for her characters and the result is a kind of human bestiary, if humans were programmed to go down in flames, to run themselves aground, to seek ruin on every occasion. These fine stories, anthropologically thorough in their view of the contemporary person, illuminate how people hide behind their pursuits, concealing what matters most to them while striving, and usually failing, to be loved." - Ben Marcus, author of Notable American Women "Like the futuristic love child of Mary Shelley and the Brothers Grimm, Alissa Nutting writes the most moving and uncanny pros. I want to be her avatar. Her future is great." - Kate Bernheimer, author of Horse, Flower, Bird "Alissa Nutting's stunning debut collection, Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls, reanimates the deadest of dead pans to a state of enameled kabuki solar veneer--a sanctified, sublime, full-throated and full-throtted static panic. Those fictions are panoplies of syntactic semantic seismic wonders. Don't look now but you are looking at a sun raised to a higher power, and it's not blinking." - Michael Martone, author of Michael Martone "Nutting's outrageous and excruciating writing makes my face split with laughter, often in public. She's glorious chaos and utterly original--read her with joy." - Lydia Millet, author of Love in Infant Monkeys "Nutting is one of the most wildly funny and provocative authors working today. Never afraid of the grotesque (rather, she likes to examine it at length), Nutting is comfortable exploring all aspects of the human condition, and this is all put to good use in her new collection of stories." - Nylon Magazine

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