“Even the darker stories in Shannan Rouss’s debut collection have an essential effervescence that makes these 10 Los Angeles tales [...] shimmer and sparkle like the backyard swimming pools dotting the area’s secretive and secluded hillsides and canyons." —Elle
“Rouss’s wise, ironic stories are refreshingly sincere, offbeat, sad, and free of Hollywood stereotypes, introducing a young, perceptive writer who can see through the shiny surface, into the human heart.” —Booklist
“Rouss's characters are refreshingly un-airbrushed and she resists all Hollywood cliches but one: that real life rarely lives up to the movies in our heads." —People
