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

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