“Precision language moving not into the fabled distancing of fool-the-mind prose but closing in more sharply, palpably upon the imaginary life of feelings as they mutate necessarily page by page. Amanda Marchand is so good at this immersion. You never know where she’ll go next.” — Bill Berkson “A truly original and engaging collection that treads lightly between short story, poetry, and memoir.” — Melanie Brannagan, Prairie Fire, 2003 ‘It surprised me with its clarity and lack of pretension…precise and humorous…filled with compelling images that illuminate…coming of age, anxiety, sexuality, violence, the body in innovative ways.”– NOW Magazine, December 2003 “Marchand is great at building a character interesting enough for the reader to spend so much time mulling over her intimate thoughts and interpretations….” — Broken Pencil, #26