Review
“Forged from the world with a sharp eye and a careful ear, serving no agenda but literature's primary and oft-forgotten one: the delight of the reader.”
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The New York Times Book Review“Gutsy, brilliantly imagined, strongly made, fresh and propulsive.”
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Chicago Tribune“With a near spooky sense of empathy and a wit that finds its mark like lightning, the stories in Jim Shepard's
Like You'd Understand, Anyway transport readers light-years beyond what they think they know of the world.”
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Vanity Fair“Exquisite, multifaceted tales.”
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The New Yorker “A macro book with a micro eye. These wildly diverse stories share a fascination with the inevitable cost of familial obligation and the inescapable fallout from disaster, both natural and human-made.”
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Los Angeles Times Book Review“Cannily crafted. . . . The stories couldn't be funnier-or deadlier-in this mad-smart, wildly inventive set.”
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Elle “Jim Shepard is really a terrific writer. And it's not just the precision of the sentences. . . . It is the way he captures people throughout time with such an exact piercing, as though he's mapped out every corresponding nerve that can make us go weak at the knees.”
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Providence Journal“An astounding set of stories . . . so dangerously brilliant, they're radioactive.”
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O Magazine
About the Author
Jim Shepard is the author of six novels and two previous collections of stories. He teaches at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
