A Safe Girl to Love

Her prose is reminiscent of Lorrie Moore and Miriam Toews, but there is both a tenderness and a willingness to confront bleak truths in Plett's writing that is all her own. I love this book. -Imogen Binnie, author of Nevada

Plett's stories show kindness at the same time as they show clear-eyed judgment, both of which we need. She writes beautifully about dressing rooms, balcony plants, house parties, the paramount importance of keeping your obligations to your cats. She takes us into the knot of really accurately rendered bonds of old friendships, families, queer solidarities, and she shows us how we can live there. -Jeanne Thornton, author of Summer Fun and The Black Emerald

An astounding debut by an original new literary voice.
-Zoe Whittall, author of The Spectacular and The Best Kind of People

Casey Plett's stories are exquisite, riveting, transformative, reasonably pissed off and joyously and riskily generous in the audience they imagine. -Trish Salah, author of Lyric Sexology, Vol. 1 and Wanting in Arabic

Lambda winner Plett (Little Fish) made her debut with this impressive collection, which now returns to print ... Plett has a knack for cracking open her characters' messy, conflicted feelings with punchy lines, as in "A Carried Ocean Breeze," when the narrator reflects on her and her friends: "I don't want to be brave. I want us to be okay." These character studies are thoughtful and gorgeous. -Publishers Weekly