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In the dark and eerie style of Joy Williams or Karen Russell, this character-driven collection from Elise Levine is tough and tender, filled with complicated people longing for independence from the scripts of the past. From a sniping road-tripping couple in the desert to a cantankerous divinity-school candidate on the prairies to a frustrated cop in a cave in the south of France, This Wicked Tongue showcases the gritty and the sublime.
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"Levine offers a vision and a language so poetically visceral and fiercely poignant-so uniquely intelligent-that story after story I was in awe of her courage and artistry."
Barbara Gowdy
"Elise Levine writes with a new and exciting type of lyric rhythm. These are stories with the beating heart of poems."
Rion Amilcar Scott, winner of the 2017 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction
"Reading Elise Levine is akin to a wild ride down a dark road at night.… Bold and startling.…Precipitous and exhilarating."
Globe and Mail