Duo: Novellas, Volume 1

Isn't That Just Like You? was not just the best manuscript entered in this contest, but one of the best novellas I have read in years. The novella is a form with particular, unusual demands: the swift creation of a world of its own, inhabited by characters about whom we learn every bit as much as we would in a sprawling, big, fat novel, but with the focus and intensity of a short story. Eric Anderson's gorgeous novella is an exemplar of the form -- a wholly original portrait of a wholly original girl in circumstances that are riveting, constantly surprising, and tenderly rendered. The language is pure music; the story he tells is quietly devastating and will break your heart." --Michelle Herman, final judge