On Nonetheless:

“there is a haunting depth to this story that plunges into the darkness below--a palpable sense of a secret story hiding under the known story, something swirling beneath the emotional surface, and this gives the narrative a rich texture. The prose, with its vivid sequence of deftly and carefully chosen visceral images, demonstrates a courage in the writer and a confidence in the reader… From start to end, there is a nuanced yet relentless tension that grabs hold of you: it is the tension between life and death, momentum and inertia, being and nothingness.” contest judge Barbara Manuel, The Heaviness of Things that Float