"Breathtaking.
The Secret Lives of People in Love announces the arrival of a major new voice in fiction..
With the same spare, economical prose that he brought to his subsequent collection, Love Begins in Winter , winner of the 2009 Frank O\'Connor Short Story Award, Van Booy creates a profoundly humane and somber resonance with the assured hand of "a first-rate storyteller" ( Newsday ). .
Van Booy\'s stories are somehow like paintings the characters walk out of, and keep walking." - Los Angeles Times In his critically-acclaimed debut collection of short stories, The Secret Lives of People in Love , Simon Van Booy explores the sway of fate and power of memory on the Lives of lonely and vulnerable people. . .chillingly beautiful, like postcards from Eden. . "Breathtaking
