"Excellent. . . . Diski displays hard-edged humor, incisive perceptions, and a lively imagination."--Publishers Weekly "Each story is told in Diski's clear, authoritative voice and explores how women strain (or not) against the bounds of a confining world. A great introduction to Diski's works."--Library Journal "If you don't know Jenny Diski's impressive body of work--six travel memoirs and two volumes of essays--read the British writer's brilliant posthumous collection...gorgeous, unruly."--Elle "Sharp, funny, clever...There's much to admire in the book--the energy of the prose, the playfulness with which Diski approaches her stories."--New York Review of Books "It's hard for me to imagine a reader exposed to Jenny Diski's writing who wouldn't be hooked... Her prose conveys the illusion of a spontaneous monologue, a mind mainlined onto the page... Her life was material. She was her writing, the sum of it a masterpiece."--New York magazine "Mysterious, beguiling, and quietly radical, readers everywhere are lucky to live in a moment when they can discover, or rediscover, her eccentric charm."--Alexandra Kleeman, author of Intimations "Glimmers like found treasure--or a mirage...insightful, imaginative, and wryly clever... Regal, raunchy, revealing--the stories in this collection leave a lasting impression."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)