"Although most of what she read was new to her, sometimes she immediately recognized what she read and had no doubt that she herself had written it, and thought it. It seemed perfectly familiar to her, as though she had just thought it that very day, though in fact she had not thought it for some years, unless reading it again was the same as thinking it again, or the same as thinking it for the first time" (from the title story). Reading Lydia Davis is a similar experience as that quote describes. This collection will change the way you think. ( )

What? You haven't read Lydia Davis? This novel is really original, and is a solid example of Davis's sparse, distant narration. ( )