Praise for The Souvenir Museum "McCracken . proves her mastery of short fiction with these 12 tightly structured, searingly realistic stories . Enduring love--along with the urge to resist it--is this volume's common theme, whether in relationships between parents and children, lovers, ex-lovers, friends, and even in-laws . An astonishingly powerful collection worth multiple readings." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "The master stylist and author of Bowlaway rolls another strike with this magnificent array of idiosyncratic love stories." --Oprah Daily "McCracken, herself, is a hard-working performer, an acrobat who dazzles with her verbal flexibility and lands the end of each tightly composed story with incredible skill--and feeling. Her inimitable images heighten the delight . McCracken's writing is never dull .

[a] fantastic collection." --NPR "Elizabeth McCracken's impressive third story collection evoke moving depictions of marriage and parenthood, and love, betrayal, and loneliness . A steady stream of exquisite writing." --Boston Globe "This incisive, warm-blooded collection of stories is populated by outsiders: expatriates and repatriates, Vikings, travelling ventriloquists . Whether it's over the course of a honeymoon in Amsterdam or a day at a Texas water park, McCracken illuminates qualities of human nature through fragments of her characters' lives." --New Yorker "McCracken opens up worlds in a mere sentence, and every page is illuminated with nuanced observations of human behavior." --Booklist.