“Grace Paley makes me weep and laugh-and admire. She is that rare kind of writer, a natural, with a voice like no one else's: funny, sad, lean, modest, energetic, acute.” —Susan Sontag

“Grace Paley is a wonderful writer and troublemaker. We are fortunate to have her in our country.” —Donald Barthelme

“I can't think of another writer who captures the itch of the city, love between parents and children, or the cutting edge of combat, as well.” —Lis Harris, The New York Times Book Review

“Technically, Grace Paley's work makes the novel as a form seem virtually redundant. Each one of her stories has more abundant inner life than most other people's novels . . . Her prose presents a series of miracles of poetic compression.” —Angela Carter, London Review of Books

“A solid and vital fictional world, cross-referenced and dense with life.” —Walter Clemons, Newsweek