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"Delightful...comical...Smith never forgets that a great artist
makes her craft appear effortless. With News of the Spirit, she takes that
one step further: she appears to be having fun."

--Bookpage

"Smith's collection will not disappoint her fans."

--The New York Times Book Review

"Smith writes beautifully, evocatively and believably about women and
their feelings....What Smith doesn't write, what she leaves in the
tiny spaces between sentences, between narrative moments, is as important
as what she insists our attention be turned to....Above all, she
delights in storytelling, in the sounds of words and the ways that they
relate to meaning, to memory and to the mayhem we do to ourselves and
others, with the blessings thrown in that things can sometimes be made
whole to our advantage."

--Seattle Post-Intelligencer

"Smith excels at creating characters somewhat boggled by the reality of
who they've become."

--Publishers Weekly

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