Underground Women

I've loved Jesse Lee Kercheval's work for decades and am over the moon to find her first book reissued as Underground Women. It is so very timely: it is mordant, smart, and simmering under the surface with feminine rage."" - Lauren Groff, author of Florida

""One of the rare collections of short fiction that manage to infuse a seemingly realist style with the sense of mystery and whimsy. Each narrative balances the visceral realistic details with off-kilter characters, images, and actions, ultimately creating the worlds that are at once familiar and surreal."" - Ellen Litman, author of Mannequin Girl

""Story after story opens with immediacy and clear access to complex lives under pressure. Kercheval offers intimate views of characters' lives within the context of larger worlds, within history - if their own versions - and within the places shaping vital experience."" - Nancy Reisman, author of Trompe L’Oeil

""There are very few writers who are able to make a place for themselves in every genre while maintaining the highest quality and originality of their work as Jesse Lee Kercheval has done. She has a national and international reputation as a woman of letters."" - Jonis Agee, author of Bones of Paradise