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"Like mixtures concocted by an evil side of Radclyffe Hall and a Grimm brother gone quietly rogue, Jaclyn Watterson’s precise, finely-frameworked fictions glow with a vintage sheen. Meanwhile, the contemporary world of white knuckles and bad luck is somewhere below the margins, racing like a chyron. Ventriloquisms is serious, hilarious, and highly recommended."
“Using the conventional language of blurbs to describe Jaclyn Watterson’s collection of stories, Ventriloquisms , is like trying to describe an elephant or giraffe to someone who has only seen cows and horses.