"If you're starting to feel a little like you've just arrived at a house party, when you were expecting an intimate dinner for two, that's good preparation.Van Camp is an exceptionally welcoming storyteller. Even when he's talking about the end of the world, he's got this way of making you feel like you could move closer to the fire and all will be well. It's easy to forget that the fire could be apocalyptic. Whether or not the stories are printed on paper, you can feel that they are meant to be told and heard as much as, in this format, they are to be read. Oral storytelling is a keystone in Richard Van Camp's Tlicho Dene community, and his collections offer a glimpse of his skill and the world he inhabits. Readers who appreciate linked short story collections like these will find the breadth of Van Camp's work particularly satisfying. Readers who enjoy the work of Indigenous storytellers from other nations - like Sherman Alexie (Spokane-Coeur d'Alene), Dawn Dumont (Cree-Métis), and Thomas King (Cherokee-German-Greek) - will want to add Van Camp's books to their stacks.

And readers looking to expand their worlds on the page beyond the 60th parallel, who are keen on short fiction by writers like Junot Díaz, Simon Rich, and Helen Simpson, also will be pleased to visit Moccasin Square Gardens." - Marcie McCauley, The /tmz/ Review, November 11, 2019.