With a spare but poetically concentrated style, Catherine Lacey vividly captures the addled, bombed-out, wryly fuzzy perspectives of her lost and drifting characters. These are stories of mystery and brooding, wintry beauty -- Colin Barrett, author of * Young Skins *
Lacey is playful and smart, one of a generation of American women who seem entirely unafraid -- 'Best Summer Books' selected by Anne Enright * Guardian *
Profoundly playful and piercingly good... The prose is full of mathematical pleasures. You don't have to read them, but you really should -- Anne Enright * Guardian *
Exquisite... Completely beautiful -- Eithne Farry * Daily Mail *
Spectacular... Very funny, very bleak... Darkly affecting -- Michael LaPointe * TLS *
Often very funny... Certain American States has a sureness of touch and the unmistakable stamp of knowing exactly what it's doing -- Selected by Sam Leith as a book of the year * Spectator *