Spectacle

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Spectacle
160 pages; Graywolf Press
With prose as potent as a shot of Everclear, Susan Steinberg's third collection, Spectacle (Graywolf), surveys busted love, good girls gone bad and disappeared friends. Unconventional and drily funny, these narcotic stories hypnotize.
— Kristy Davis