loverboy"Winner of the S. Mariella Gable Prize "Loverboy" is a fierce and harrowing book, a novel that precisely charts the course of a mother's love so steel-willed and relentless that we have no choice but come to understand the purely rational insanity Victoria Redel examines here. Ms. Redel is a writer whose stories and poems I have long admired, but "Loverboy "shows us all just how dynamic and beautiful and frightening her storytelling art truly is." Bret Lott "Victoria Redel's contribution to the literature of obsession is rendered with unusual delicacy and daring." Amy Hempel praise for "Where the Road Bottoms Out" "Only a poet could have written this prose. Only a storyteller could keep a reader turning these pages so greedily." Grace Paley "A true thing glitters, jewel-like, at the heart of these stories." "Los Angeles Times" "Stories like memories, viewed through the thick and distortive lens of time, stories more sense than intellect, more instinct than erudition, come forth in this collection with language that is both sumptuous and spare." "Ruminator Review