Slick stories from an exciting and dangerous new voice. Fragoulis' bloodthirsty prose, nasty words and reckless mind evoke this assurance: I do what I please, and I do it with ease.
Lynn Crosbie
These dynamic stories run the gamut of human love from the "grisly [to the] golden" while flashing with rich details and images, as of the lover who looms above her man "like a thundercloud on all fours."Stories to Hide From Your Mother" is a fresh and compelling debut.
Steven Heighton
A first short story collection, pulsing with vitality and imagination, that introduces a striking new voice in Canadian literature.
DM Thomas
In superb control of her material, with gorgeous, stirring and intelligent language, Tess Fragoulis is definitely a writer to watch.
Montreal Review of Books
Like a lot of first collections, this one is a kind of demo-tape audition, a bit of Saint Joan, a soliloquy of Lady Macbeth, and some sketch material too wild for Mad TV or Saturday Night Live.
Vancouver Sun
Her prose is playful and experimental, sly and bold. Her settings breathe, her plots tantalize. Words, smells, and flesh, human and otherwise, reverberate through all of her stories, which push the boundaries of modern fiction.
Room of One's Own
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