Some nice things that two of my favorite writers said about Famous Fathers and Other Stories.

Pia Z. Ehrhardt's Famous Fathers is a stunning first collection. The stories charm and tease and threaten with equal fervor. Ehrhardt's narrators are always a little bit in heat, open to love's every fleeting attention and intent on having and being pleasured by their moments of grace or disgrace. From "Running the Room," in which a daughter helps her mother with a little spirited indiscretion, to a breathtaking moment in "How It Floods" when a father's attentions to his daughter linger at the edge of incest, these are stories that tempt the heart like no others. To read them is to be seduced, at night and in the slanting rain, in a new city, over quiet water, by the woman of your dreams.

Frederick Barthelme - Author of MOON DELUXE and BOB THE GAMBLER

Pia Ehrhardt's tender and funny stories are filled with passionate women just barely bottled up by their everyday responsibilities: busy-hearted wives and mothers who may find themselves surprised by love or their own resiliency but who never doubted for a moment the intensity of their desire to touch the world. They experience their lives as tunnels to negotiate before the payoff of so much space. They render for us that jumping-on-a-trampoline feeling, when our most intimate connections are the top of the bounce, and the view up there is both scary and sweet.

Jim Shepard - Author of LOVE & HYDROGEN and PROJECT X