As you’ve no doubt noticed, everyone loves Other Heartbreaks. Go ahead, click on the left there. That’s just Booklist, loving Other Heartbreaks.
The StarTribune loves it, too, with Kathryn Lang writing: “Obsessive love with its accompaniment, lust, is at the center of these vividly drawn, often wise stories.” (Kathryn Lang, StarTribune, November 12, 2011)
In the San Antonio Express-News, Nan Cuba compares the characters in Other Heartbreaks to “Alice Munro’s remarkable women, characters so psychologically and emotionally complex, you’d swear you know them.” (Nan Cuba, San Antonio Express-News, November 10, 2011)
Reviewers continue to sing the book’s praises at the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Sycamore Review, Glorified Love Letters, Hey Small Press! (October Book List), and WBAA.
You can buy Other Heartbreaks back at enginebooks.org, of course, or at a number of fine online and in-the-flesh retailers. You can also get it for your Kindle, iPad (etc), NOOK, even for your Android! It’s in Google eBooks, too, and is coming soon to a number of libraries across the country, if it isn’t already there.
Keep it coming, everybody! This is one of the best story collections you’ll read all year.