Reviews

"Entertainment Weekly"Exotic safaris into the deepest, darkest emotional landscapes....[Eisenberg is a] short-story wizard.

Katherine DieckmannThe Village VoiceWe lurch alongside [a] hapless late teen in "The Girl Who Left Her Sock on the Floor.,.""Rosie Gets a Soul" nails junkie reverie with startlingly acute prose....These are tales that span a continent forsaken long ago...the continent of the coherent self....

"Booklist"Eisenberg's short stories are fresh and sure....A spectacular set of diverse new works is presented here....Whatever the setting, Eisenberg perfectly andinstructively captures the baffling simultaneity of each moment -- theindifference of sunlight, the presentiment of a misheard word -- and our minds' stubborn preoccupation with the spin and crash of thoughts.

Gail CaldwellBoston Sunday GlobeEisenberg's finest work bears the evidence of a consciousness beholden to no clock other than the rhythms of experience. The dialogue ... is crisp and revelatory, while the texture of the stories -- which range in setting from Latin America to the inside of a little girl's afternoon -- is often perilously, gloriously thick....Eisenberg's stories are deceptively tough: built to last, rather than mere gauzy or ephemeral glimpses of a moment.

Jim ShepardThe New York Times Book ReviewThese stories are spirited and masterly road maps through sad and forbidding and desolate terrain.

R.Z. SheppardTimeEisenberg writes like a dream, both figuratively and literally.

Will BlytheMirabellaBreathtaking....Eisenberg's dreamy, absorbing, often heart-stopping collection of seven novella-length stories...(set all over the map, from Manhattan's West Tenth Street to a guerrilla-infested village in Central America) reverberates with pitch-perfect dialogue and characters whose ragged edges scrape against the world.

Check out Eisenberg's new collection of short stories, which often feature characters in the midst of startling change; she's a definite favorite of those looking for the next literary star.

"Entertainment Weekly"

Exotic safaris into the deepest, darkest emotional landscapes....[Eisenberg is a] short-story wizard.
Katherine Dieckmann

The Village VoiceWe lurch alongside [a] hapless late teen in "The Girl Who Left Her Sock on the Floor.,.""Rosie Gets a Soul" nails junkie reverie with startlingly acute prose....These are tales that span a continent forsaken long ago...the continent of the coherent self....
"Booklist"

Eisenberg's short stories are fresh and sure....A spectacular set of diverse new works is presented here....Whatever the setting, Eisenberg perfectly andinstructively captures the baffling simultaneity of each moment -- theindifference of sunlight, the presentiment of a misheard word -- and our minds' stubborn preoccupation with the spin and crash of thoughts.
Gail Caldwell

Boston Sunday GlobeEisenberg's finest work bears the evidence of a consciousness beholden to no clock other than the rhythms of experience. The dialogue ... is crisp and revelatory, while the texture of the stories -- which range in setting from Latin America to the inside of a little girl's afternoon -- is often perilously, gloriously thick....Eisenberg's stories are deceptively tough: built to last, rather than mere gauzy or ephemeral glimpses of a moment.
Jim Shepard

The New York Times Book ReviewThese stories are spirited and masterly road maps through sad and forbidding and desolate terrain.
R.Z. Sheppard

TimeEisenberg writes like a dream, both figuratively and literally.
Will Blythe

MirabellaBreathtaking....Eisenberg's dreamy, absorbing, often heart-stopping collection of seven novella-length stories...(set all over the map, from Manhattan's West Tenth Street to a guerrilla-infested village in Central America) reverberates with pitch-perfect dialogue and characters whose ragged edges scrape against the world.