Don’t Cry: Stories Audiobook

Quotes

• “[A] mind-searing, soul-rattling, gratitude-inducing collection.”

  — O, The Oprah Magazine

• “Savagely intelligent tales…Gaitskill has consistently plumbed the farther reaches of psychic extremis with power and passion.”

  — Elle

• “Masterful…Past, present, future; heartbreak, desire, and loss—none of it is quite beyond her. Gaitskill’s prose glides lightly over unsoundable depths.”

  — Village Voice

• “A gathering of fiercely observed portraits of cultural unease, from the Reagan years to the early days of the Iraq War.”

  — Vogue

• “Gaitskill writes with visceral power…[She] commands her readers’ attention as few fiction writers can.”

  — New York Times Book Review

• “Exquisite…Gaitskill never stops at surfaces…She believes—maybe reluctantly—in the absolute primacy of human connections, no matter what mess we tend to make of them.”

  — Chicago Tribune

• “Intense and thought-provoking, compelling and often tragic, yet filled with a subtle magic…Gaitskill explores the spectrum of emotion: lust, greed, sorrow, hope, anger, and many forms of love.”

  — Los Angeles Times

• “Gaitskill is a fiercely emphatic writer—her concern always how close we can get to the pith of a protagonist or relationship—and Don’t Cry is wonderfully Machiavellian in its excavation of character.”

  — San Francisco Chronicle

• “Gaitskill seems to have traveled through a lifetime of perception, moving in a progression from raw and violently sexualized to tender and regretful, with every character knowing the intimacy and exhaustion of sorrow.”

  — Boston Globe

• “Another accomplished collection from an American original.”

  — Kirkus Reviews