With Who Do You Love, readers will discover a writer with rare insight into the resiliency of the human spirit and the complexities of love.

Best Books of 1999

With spare eloquence, Thompson surveys the lives of emotionally dislocated people craving connection, but infuses even the saddest situation with humor and a wry glimmer of hope. The fifteen stories in this collection ring with an unpretentious integrity and a knowledge of human complexities.

The Baltimore Sun

Thompson is a wonderful writer. We fall for every one of her characters....[An] outstanding collection.

The Boston Globe

This is a contemporary version of the modern epiphany, the moment of illumination, bright or dark, that makes a gray world bearable or unbearable. It doesn't matter that it's been done before, many times, by everyone from Flannery O'Connor to Andre Dubus — at least not when it's done this beautifully. The consistency and durability of the modern short story is one of the few firm traditions in this century, even if its mission is to depict fracture and loss. In a culture of millennium hype, it's healthy to remind ourselves that the New Age may turn out to be the Old Rut — and that artists like Jean Thompson can still turn it into poetry.

Elle

A bracing and wildly intelligent collection that explores the nature of love in all its hidden and manifest dimensions.

San Francisco Bay Guardian Literary Supplement

Luminous and heartbreaking...[Thompson is] among the best short-fiction writers working today....With a clearheaded compassion that allows the stories to grow up around them in unpredictable, satisfying ways.

Chicago Tribune

What makes these stories engaging...? Talent. Compassion. Imagination. Humor. Finesse. Thompson's greatest gift is for layering artistry on top of grit....A writer with a refined grasp of the vocabulary of the dispossessed.

Her tales are as real as life, illuminating the raw core of human needs and human wants.