"With wry humor and profound sensitivity, Walsh takes what is mundane
and transforms it into something otherworldly with sentences that can
make your heart stop. A feat of language." --Kirkus Reviews, starred
review
"Joanna Walsh's haunting and unforgettable stories enact a literal
vertigo--the feeling that if I fall I will fall not toward the earth but
into space--by probing the spaces between things. Waiting for news in a
children's hospital, pondering her husband's multiple online flirtations
or observing the tourists and locals at a third-world archeological
site, her narrator approaches the suppressed state of panic coursing
beneath things that are normally tamed by our blunted perceptions of
ordinary life. Vertigo is an original and breathtaking book." (Chris
Kraus)