Unsaid Things

The stories in Unsaid Things take place in the clubs, apartments, and often on the dark side of rudderless lives in search of something more. A woman who tells everyone her very much alive ex is dead. A model whose abuse as a girl defines how she sees her role in the world. An art student who is a curator, collecting beauty where she find it. A college student sinking deeper and deeper into a dark hole of drugs and sex. Always real, always unblinking, Unsaid Things pulls the reader along as a wing-woman on booze-soaked nights and ill-chosen hookups, all in search of more. Reviews: “Blunt, spare, tautly-honed stories in which lovers wound each other, betray and abandon each other, return to each other, fall in love, out of love, and back in love again, in a Mobius strip of hard-edged prose that captures the unsentimental sexual politics of our time. Joanna Acevedo is an unflinching portraitist with a wicked sense of humor.” — Joyce Carol Oates, winner of the PEN/O. Henry Award, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics’ Circle Award. "Joanna Acevedo has many gifts, but the most potent may be: she is a writer who is incapable of being dull. This searing, mesmerizingly entertaining collection will leave you aching for more. She's a great writer, and this is an exhilarating debut."—Darin Strauss, author of numerous books including Half a Life and recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award. "I wish I could read Joanna Acevedo for the first time again, and feel that swell of amazement a reader feels when discovering a brave and brilliant writer and thinker ... I envy you, reader, encountering Joanna Acevedo at the beginning of a great career." — Sharon Mesmer, poet, fiction writer, essayist and professor of creative writing. "Joanna Acevedo is not just good—she is thrillingly good. She takes you places—dark, funny roads, eerily beautiful faces and landscapes—you and books haven't been to before." —David Lipsky, New York Times Best-Selling Author of Absolutely American and Although Of Course You End Up Being Yourself. “Love isn’t safe, love isn’t kind. Love is a four letter word in Joanna Acevedo’s Unsaid Things.”—Elisa Sinnett, author of Detroit Fairy Tales.