““Ways to Disappear is...as tough and broad and wide ranging as a killer novel, as rich line-for-line as the finest poem, and it is mean. It spares not the author, the characters, the relationships, the siblings, the husbands and wives...It’s not a tea party. What it is is consistently heartbreaking and true...a sublime collection, astonishing, thrilling, hard as nails, bright as ice.””
— Frederick Barthelme
"Victoria Lancelotta's prose is lyrical, intuitive, and expansive. She opens up the small space of a story and breathes life into unexpected corners."
Kelly Link
"This wondrous book...invites us to share a radical experience with time...the shimmering stories in Ways To Disappear remind us that experience remains, relentlessly and materially, embedded within ourselves, and without."
Cristina Rivera Garza
"Quite how Victoria Lancelotta manages to combine icy precision and fiery passion as she explores her heroine's dark journey is a mystery but the result is absolutely clear. Far is an exquisite novel full of suspense and a spare, mysterious beauty."
Margot Livesey
"Severe, brilliant, Victoria Lancelotta. Who keeps the flame fixed on high burn. Who is a genius of holy beauty, of ecstasy and dread."
Mary Robison
"Victoria Lancelotta's stories come on hot and sharp and salty, but under the sensuousness lurks a bladelike clarity...At the heart of Here in the World lies an even more troubling core of loneliness and loss, of wisdom earned at a high price."
Stewart O'Nan
"Lancelotta's stories are precisely conceived and exquisitely rendered. Dark and intricate, smoky and alluring, Here in the World delivers on its promises."
Madison Smartt Bell
"Ways to Disappear is...as tough and broad and wide ranging as a killer novel, as rich line-for-line as the finest poem, and it is mean. It spares not the author, the characters, the relationships, the siblings, the husbands and wives...It’s not a tea party. What it is is consistently heartbreaking and true...a sublime collection, astonishing, thrilling, hard as nails, bright as ice."
