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.

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Jean Thompson examines the tough, often grotesque complexities of love at the end of the millennium and runs head-on into a barnyard of other all-too-familiar animals: loneliness, despair, grief, alienation, violent death. Yet each of the fifteen stories in this volume sparkles like a world unto itself with fresh, vivid language, grippingly real dialogue, suspenseful situations and characters who never let go their belief in love, no matter how thoroughly it eludes them....Yet these are all stories — themes — of our time and in Thompson's hands they offer beauty and grace and a sliver of hope.

The Baltimore Sun

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

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.