"Fierce and unforgettable.These no-holds-barred stories often feature young women in trouble, sometimes of their own making but more frequently not.While danger lurks around the corner for all of Krouse's characters, sometimes compassion saves the day." -- Booklist (starred review) "Krouse is gifted at capturing her characters' dueling frustrations, needs, and fears. A smart set of globetrotting, emotionally gripping stories." -- Kirkus (starred review) "Affecting.Poignant.[Krouse] makes the thrill of new beginnings palpable.
" -- Publishers Weekly " Save Me, Stranger is a book of parables--supernal and sinister. Disturbing but comforting. Read these stories with a buddy, because someone will have to scrape you off the floor." --Louise Erdrich, author of The Sentence and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award "In this far-ranging and visionary collection, Krouse extends the reach of what stories can do, delivering a dozen little masterpieces of heart and longing and surprise. Save Me, Stranger is at once a treatise on tender moments and a symphony of storytelling." --Adam Johnson, author of Fortune Smiles and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Story Prize "I really enjoyed this book. Some of its remarkable power is that the stories alternate between embodying epiphanies and valedictions--sometimes a quick goodbye, but always with an authenticity that convinces the longer it lingers. They'll stay in your mind.
" --Ann Beattie, author of Onlookers and winner of the PEN/Malamud Award "It is always a thrill to encounter a new and wildly capable imagination. Each story here is fully-realized and also a portal into a new landscape, and I read with appetite, marveling at Krouse's range and storytelling chops." -- Aimee Bender, author of The Butterfly Lampshade and winner of the Alex Award "The protagonists at the heart of this collection seem to hang, fingers clinging, on a high precipice, while the reader stands above in judgment and care, both at once. In our lonesome, suspicious times, Save Me, Stranger made me feel that there's hope yet for our wretched souls. I'll be thinking about these stories for a long time." --Vauhini Vara, author of This is Salvaged and a Pulitzer Prize finalist.