"A first-rate short story collection." --New York Times
"Wise and funny . . . [A] near-perfect collection." --Entertainment Weekly
“[W]ith deadpan humor, Lee’s light touch illuminates the contrasts in everyday life—warmth and cold, past and present, beauty and terror—imbuing her realistic tales with quiet depth.” —Bust
"Astonishing prose . . . This fresh, provocative collection, peerless in its vehement elucidation of contemporary foibles, is not to be missed." —Publishers Weekly, starred review
"Lee covers a wide terrain in only seven stories, touching on fidelity, sacrifice, jealousy, and obligation, with stories that often dial out slowly from tightly-focused beginnings." —PublishersWeekly.com, "Best Summer Books 2013" list
"A shining example of furious and smart writing." —LibraryJournal.com
“[An] arresting and distinctive short story collection . . . Lee’s gorgeously crafted, scintillating stories are imaginative and incisive, funny and profound.” —Booklist
"Bobcat and Other Stories is nothing short of brilliant. Rebecca Lee writes with the unflinching, cumulatively devastating precision of Chekhov and Munro, peeling back layer after layer of illusion until we’re left with the truth of ourselves . . . This extraordinary story collection is sure to confirm its author as one of the best writers of her generation."—Ben Fountain, author of Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
"Rebecca Lee’s unforgettable debut story collection, Bobcat, manages to be both heartwarming and heartbreaking, not to mention witty and wise. I was so thoroughly immersed in these universes, so glad to meet her characters, these inquisitive, open-hearted citizens of the world that I did not want the book to end."—Jami Attenberg, author of The Middlesteins
"So alive to itself that it made my skin buzz . . . Lee’s [stories] roam and dart like wild things and yet somehow wind up exactly where they intended to go. They are ardent, wayward, vigilant, heartbreaking, and, amidst all the trouble they explore, mysteriously funny." —Kevin Brockmeier, author of The Illumination
"Alternately poignant, searingly intelligent, and laugh-out-loud funny, the stories in Rebecca Lee’s Bobcat will have you torn between two impulses: the impulse to reread an exquisite sentence again and again, in order to appreciate its clear, sharp prose and surprising imagery, and the impulse to race ahead, eager to find out what happens next." —Johanna Skibsrud, Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning author of The Sentimentalists
Among other honors to date, BOBCAT has been:
• included in Entertainment Weekly’s “The Must List: The Top 10 Things We Love This Week” for June 14th
• included on Oprah.com’s best books of Summer 2013 list
• included on Publishers Weekly’s best books of Summer 2013 list
• awarded the Danuta Gleed Literary Award for Fiction from the Writers’ Union of Canada
• included in the Poets and Writers Page One section for July