Description: "Diane Williams is one of the true living heroes of the American avant-garde. Her fiction makes very familiar things very, very weird." --Jonathan Franzen "She is one of the very few contemporary prose writers who seem to be doing something independent, energetic, heartfelt." --Lydia Davis "The uncanny has met its ideal delivery system: the stories of Diane Williams." --Ben Marcus "These stories are the Giacometti walking man, the Cornell box, that extraordinary object born out of a genius for expressing the inner murmur of the mind. Each page is like throwing open the window in an electrical storm--strange sky, air full of voltage, and inside, a square of brave. Diane Williams is hilarious, brilliant, eccentric, powerful, and, luckily, ours ." --Deb Olin Unferth "Vicky Swanky is a Beauty and Diane Williams is a genius. She is also a hero who "resurrect(s) glee" in the face off with mortality. Her stories are sensationally complex; sorrow and hilarity, melancholy and wonder mingle, rendering this surpassingly winning collection, her seventh, quite extraordinary." --Christine Schutt

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