“A kaleidoscope that filters fear, pleasure, and disgust. The most vital human impulses flow through a first person narration that, by using colloquial speech, gives voice to different women who seem to be the same, because perhaps we all are. In her stories, Olivia Teroba illuminates the most intimate human condition with a delicate narrative cadence and tender sparks of beauty.”

“With apparent freshness and a natural ability to tell stories, Olivia Teroba narrates with absolute awareness of the details that transform any trivial reality into an unsettling one. The narrators of these stories focus on the opaque corners of relationships, the dangers of parties, the crudeness of ways to make a living, or the squalor that hides in family spaces. Like animals capable of moving freely in the dark, swimming at night, surviving in the depths. And not just survive, but rather shine and charm us.”