Elizabeth McCracken is the author of five books, Here's Your Hat What's Your Hurry, The Giant's House (a National Book Award finalist), Niagara Falls All Over Again, the memoir An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imag-ination, and Thunderstruck & Other Stories (winner of the 2014 Story Prize, longlisted for the National Book Award). She has received grants and fellow-ships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts and she was chosen as one of Granta's 20 Best American Writers Under 40. She has served on the faculty at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and currently holds the James Michener Chair for Fic-tion at the University of Texas at Austin.
McCracken has a real talent for exploring what makes an individual
unusual when they are entwined with another person, and her stories
are sparkling gems of human eccentricity.
*Independent*
[McCracken] has a gift for spotting the comic potential in
situations many of us have endured... Her prose is stippled with
just-so observations.
*The Observer*
[A] sly, emotionally complex collection . . . Each story opens to
reveal a whole life spent within the web of a family, chosen or
not. Full of gems, this collection is a winner.
*Publishers Weekly (starred review)*
McCracken is a totally assured performer: even seemingly throwaway
perceptions are often memorably poetic, and there is a hint of
melancholy under the comedy.
*Sunday Times*
It's pitch perfect; funny, melancholy and alight with the kind of
sharp observations that reveal the fault lines in relationships and
family dynamics... McCracken cracks open the hearts of her
captivating characters.
*Daily Mail*
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