Aleksandar Hemon's new stories have earned Starred Reviews from Publishers Weekly and Booklist:

... beautifully twists the language in this collection of eight powerful and disquieting stories.

Hemon arranges words like gems in a necklace.

Writing with steely control and an antic eye, Hemon has assembled another extraordinary work.

Hemon infuses everything, from a freezer to bees in a hive, with barbed insights into our instinct for aggression, longing for connection, and unquenchable need to tell our stories, whether in poems, letters, drunken orations, or confessions to strangers.

Hemon is a world-class writer of seismic depth, riptide humor, wine-dark language, and unflinching candor.