"The stories in Genevieves flit and flirt about the edges of different genres. Quirky and quietly unruly, these are the kinds of pieces Djuna Barnes might have written if she'd been born in the South on the verge of the 21st century." -Brian Evenson

“Subtle and beguiling. As Hoke’s prose ambulates between ways of seeing, and the elisions they give rise to, we are prompted — inevitably, irrefusably — to locate ourselves in this gorgeous imagined topography.” -LA Review of Books

“Conjures up a beautiful yet broken America haunted by lost dreams and childhood secrets, but most of all haunted by language. Written largely in crystallized fragments of prose, strung together like glittering and strange necklaces. When you look closely, you realize what you thought were plastic beads are actually bits of Halloween candy and the bones of birds. Try these stories on and see the world in a new way." -Lincoln Michel

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