Description: Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for short fiction, these stories present quirky takes on contemporary life in which animals, not always large, lurk around the edges. "Ms. Brenner's achievement in these ironic, understanding tales is making sure that even the small losses her characters suffer do not fail to move us".--"New York Times Book Review".
Brief description: Wendy Brenner is a professor at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington. Her stories have appeared in New Stories from the South, The Oxford American, Ploughshares, New England Review, and other literary journals.
Review Quotes: Her prose is at times as moving and mean as broken bottles. . . . Brenner is a writer of large . . . talent.--Diane Roberts "Atlanta Journal-Constitution"