Description: 'Sophisticated, original, literary fictions... How Aliens Think is a remarkable collection that challenges the overlooked corners of questions of identity and displacement, and does so with great intelligence and acuity.' -- Susan Daitch, Boston Review'Carrying on in the tradition of her wry 1988 novel Her Own Terms, Judith Grossman has produced a collection of stories about interludes of disjunction within the world and the self... They shed subtle illumination on a reassuring truth: we are all aliens at one time or another -- perhaps to ourselves even more than to others.' -- Melanie Rehak, New York Times Book Review'A polished balance of deadpan wit and understated emotional intensity. In precise, economical prose, Grossman depicts a generation of transatlantic drifters -- mostly academics and writers who fled their modest postwar English subdivisions for the U.S. as soon as they came of age in the early '60s -- and their self-sacrificing, unfulfilled, working-class parents. Yet Grossman's characters are alien not so much because they are adrift in a foreign country or members of an inferior class, but because they are mute observers, shut off from the world by their own inability to communicate honestly with those around them... The strength of her best stories is not so much in their revelations as in the frank, intelligent, unassuming characters who populate them.' -- Publishers Weekly'Judith Grossman's fiction has carnal voltage and comic acuity, a ringing lyricism and an edgy intellectual force. These stories enter the universal theater of human impostors, family treasons, and the workplace ethos and eros; they evoke timeless events that seem ancient even as they reflect our contemporary upheavals. How Aliens Think pulls the reader face-front before a lucid mirror that explodes in a splashing sheet of recognition.' -- Maria Flook, author of Open Water and My Sister Life: The Story of My Sister's Disappearance

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