Daddy Stories

Daddy approaches questions about power and connivance from a flurry of different angles. . . . [Cline] comes for the king and she doesn t miss. Los Angeles Times

Brilliant, dark . . . Cline s fiction is full of binaries pressing up against one another: youthful promise and life s realities; success and failure; darkness and humor; external beauty and internal rot. Wall Street Journal
 
Cline is an astonishingly gifted stylist, but it is her piercing understanding of modern humiliation that makes these stories vibrate with life. . . . Brilliant. The New York Times
 
Cline is a master of fiction that wallows in the heavy weight of the unsaid, with perversion and darkness simmering beneath her characters tightly controlled surfaces. Daddy s ten masterful, provocative stories confirm that Cline is a staggering talent. Esquire
 
A hair-raising collection of short fiction that at once discomfits and titillates, delineating the various ways women and men wrestle with the male gaze. O Magazine

Cline s sharply drawn characters are the cowed, contemplative survivors of self-inflicted trauma, both seismic and quotidian. . . . Cline writes with such grace and precision that every sentence is a joy to absorb. LitHub

Daddy is a striking achievement, the assured work of a young writer with talent to burn. The Boston Globe
 
The payoffs are as gratifying as they are shattering. Publishers Weekly
 
Scintillating . . . This is a technically perfect book. New York
 
Cline s stories constitute a riveting, timely tapestry of realizations, motivations, and desires. Booklist