Unmarriageable Daughters

Cara Diaconoff writes with clarity and heartfelt honesty about ordinary lives on the cusp: artists, converts, migrs, fiancesall manner of people on the boundary between one way of being and the next. The compassion of these stories moved me deeply. I feel like I know these people. Theyll stick with me for a long time. David Haynes, Author of The Full Matilda Cara Diaconoffs short stories are evocative and compelling. They can be as disturbing as dreams, as immediate as those memories that strike when were not quite awake. These narratives make us rethink the solidity of the world. Cara has a fine ear for the cadences of speech and the flow of sentences; her characters speak to us from far distances but also in intimate whispers. Francois Camoin