"It’s easy to make fun of Florida, hard to understand it, but in these compelling stories Jennifer Bannan beautifully evokes the complex allure of her home city of Miami, from its cypresses, palms, pines, and sawgrass, to its 'bluster and machismo.' The teen girls and women in these stories map their own desires and longing onto this treacherous landscape.”

Elisabeth Cohen, author of The Glitch

"This artful collection brims with wit and thwarted desire and the unruly demands of the heart. Bannan’s stories are astute portrayals of lives messy with love and heartbreak."

Elizabeth McKenzie, author of The Dog of the North

Previous praise for Jennifer Bannan:

"Bannan is after a kind of truth most literary writers try to avoid: brutal honesty in the face of all the bad things human being do to each other."

Keith Banner

Previous praise for Jennifer Bannan:

"Bannan artfully guides her narrators and her readers away from despair and toward calm and honest reflection."

Bonnie Jo Campbell