[Houston's] prose [is] sharp and clean and full of sentences worth underlining.-- "New York Times Book Review"
A brilliant collection of stories... that strike at the heart and end up revealing much about the complex state of relations between men and women.--Judith Freeman "Los Angeles Times"
A powerhouse.... Houston's women are strong and free-spirited--their encounters with their moosehunting, whitewater-rafting, wilderness-loving lovers are more comic than tragic, and always entertaining.-- "St. Louis Post-Dispatch"
Beautifully written and funny.-- "Cleveland Plain Dealer"
Exhilarating, like a swift ride through river rapids.-- "Washington Post Book World"
Houston is a writer of talent and promise.-- "Newsday"
Illuminated by a sturdy sense of humor and a gift for poetic description.-- "The New Yorker"
Many of these short gems owe their entire core to the west, which, more a character than a setting, allows subtle interplay to occur between Houston's strong, modern women and the prairie or rangeland they temporarily inhabit.-- "Milwaukee Journal"
These are adventure stories that would make Hemingway jealous.-- "Arizona Republic"
In Pam Houston's wonderful stories, sex and hunting are somehow confused, as are humans and animals. People wear skins, the animals speak, and those guys--the ones we all thought were extinct, the ones who defined what a man was--turn up, very much alive, and up to their usual tricks. Houston's women know they should know better, but they don't, and the result is a beautiful collection about sexual politics, old and new.--Charles Baxter