Praise for Alice Petersen and Worldly Goods

“Assured and stylistically confident … Petersen’s knowledge of and precise language for subjects such as natural history, the domestic arts, and music add to the classical feel of these stories, set all around the English-speaking Commonwealth. Crisp sentences and slightly old-fashioned vocabulary combine gratifyingly with evocative visual imagery to make this collection a pleasure to read.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review

&quotWorldly Goods is a multi-faceted diamond: its carbon base is the stuff of life, and its reflective power is dazzling. Petersen can take a small event and in a few pages create an entire world … a writer this good needs to be read.”—Quill & Quire, starred review

“What a thrill to follow a writer from promise to fulfillment. Alice Petersen’s debut collection of short stories … marked her as a young writer to watch. [This] collection, Worldly Goods, more than delivers.”—Montreal Review of Books

“Alice Petersen writes as eloquently about the natural world as she does about the world of human emotion and desire. This is a wise and impressive collection of stories.”—David Bezmozgis, author of The Free World

Praise for All the Voices Cry

“Finely crafted and pared down to their bare essentials … These are stories that work on multiple levels, and continue to divulge their secrets after several rereadings.”—Quill & Quire

“Among the book’s pleasures are bursts of descriptive panache.”—Globe & Mail

“Alice Petersen’s All the Voices Cry is masterful and potent—incredibly satisfying for a reader.”—Kathleen Winter, author of Annabel