Patricia Cumbie, author of The Shape of a Hundred Hips and Where People Like Us Live
“Carol Dines is a writer for our times, delivering masterful, unsettling, and utterly convincing fiction that reveals what is real and heartfelt with unflinching veracity.”
Adrian Van Young, author of The Man Who Noticed Everything and Shadows in Summerland
“Carol Dines is a merciless, tender excavator of the human heart. Fans of Lorrie Moore and Alice Munro take note, each of these stories is a delicately calibrated wonder of pain, joy, and transformation.”
Miriam Karmel, author of Being Esther and Subtle Variations
“These tender, beautifully wrought stories take us to the edges where things fall apart, a landscape of fraying marriages, grief, loss, doubt. And then they bring us back to love.”
Kevin McIlvoy, author of One Kind Favor and At the Gate of All Wonder
“The novelistic short stories in This Distance We Call Love ring devastatingly true in their portrayals of characters who are learning to reckon with persisting losses, fears, griefs, and needs. I have only rarely encountered short fiction that has this kind of visceral immediacy, so surprising at all turns.”
