Alix Ohlin is the author of The Missing Person, a novel, and Babylon and Other Stories. Her work has appeared in Best American Short Stories, Best New American Voices, and on NPR’s “Selected Shorts.” Born and raised in Montreal, she teaches at Lafayette College and in the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers.
“Smart, satisfying, surprising stories. Ohlin has a big, calm,
seductive talent.” —Joy Williams
“Ohlin has a marvelous will to explore and it’s clear that she’s in
complete command of her art. These stories are smart, tough,
deeply felt and beautifully delivered, without one wasted
word. Signs and wonders, all right. I’ve seldom come
upon a book so aptly titled for what’s inside, page to page.”
—Richard Bausch
“Nothing short of marvelous. Olin writes like an Old Master,
with confidence and clarity, a steady hand. She is immensely
gifted, and every story here is a lucid chunk of reality—the flesh
made word.” – Jay Parini
“With an emotional intelligence that is nearly telepathic and a
great storyteller’s knack for riveting your attention from the
opening line, Ohlin makes us understand that beneath everything
that drives and distracts us there is, first and foremost, the
struggle to love. She is a ferocious talent, a writer not
only to watch but also to admire.” —Adam Ross
“I love the way Alix Ohlin’s stories teach us, with wit and
tenderness, about those grown-up selves we don’t recognize; about
the way our failures make us adults; and about how powerfully
relieved we are to understand that, despite everything, our hearts
can still move.” —Jim Shepard
“Ohlin’s stories are gripping from the get-go, and they don’t turn
you loose. On virtually every page she surprised me and, more
times than I could count, put a lump in my throat. She is one
spectacular writer, and this is a beautiful book.” —Steve
Yarbrough
"Unputdownable: crisp, focused, lovely, and lasting. . . .
Sixteen stories about connectedness—between friends, families, and
lovers—and the predicaments that come from navigating those
relationships. Ohlin's characters are so genuine you'll be
reminded of people you know, love, and hate. For better or
worse, you may even see yourself in these pages." —Marie Claire
“Alix Ohlin working at the top of her powers… showing us in a
remarkably mature and flat-out realistic style a new series of
twists and turns in the lives of quite ordinary people – school
teachers, women on the rebound, married folks and divorced folks,
travelers, home bodies… There closely worked stories about life on
earth – they soar.” —Alan Cheuse, NPR
“Calling all fans of Lorrie Moore, Deborah Eisenberg, and Robin
Black: You have a new favorite writer [with a] deliciously
addictive collection.” – Sheila Anne Fenney, Newark Star-Ledger
“Alix Ohlin’s wondrously engrossing Inside and Signs and Wonders
display her characteristic strengths—dynamic plots, keenly observed
settings, and characters so idiosyncratic, ambivalent, and
contradictory they could be your family, your neighbors, people you
work with…..She has a rare gift for examining the confusions of the
21st century, exploring the ways in which addictions, afflictions,
attractions, and random impulses shape our lives. Her intense
and beautifully shaped new novel and stories offer tentative yet
illuminating answers.” – Jane Ciabattari, The Boston Globe
“Ohlin’s a master at drawing a character, a skill even more evident
in the short story form, [and] she’s got a surgeon’s hand with the
fine points of relationship dissection… Signs and Wonders makes me
want to say to you, dear reader, one simple thing: Read this!” —Ian
McGillis, Montreal Gazette
“Impressive… With enjoyably mordant humour and a surgical hand with
relationship dissection… Ohlin crafts stories with consistent
excellence.” —Brett Josef Grubisic, National Post
“One of the best story collections I’ve read in a decade… tough,
original, funny and tragic, all at once.” —William McKeen, Creative
Loafing Tampa
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