Jessica Westhead’s short story collection ‘And Also Sharks’ is a Spring Pick in the National Post

11 Mar 2011 by Meryl Howsam, No Comments »

In this Saturday’s books section, the team at the National Post‘s book blog ‘The Afterword’ polled authors on their most anticipated books of the season, which include titles by David Foster Wallace and Zsuzsi Gartner.

Jessica Westhead’s And Also Sharks is the book Sean Dixon,  author of the forthcoming novel The Many Revenges of Kip Flynn, is most excited about this spring. Like a patient photographer,” he says of Jessica’s writing style and the book, “she catches polite, anxious urbanites in hot, mumbled flashes of passion before they have a chance to notice…” Scroll down to the very last paragraph of The Afterword page and see the rest of his review.

Thanks for the kind words, Sean, and for the sneak peak of the book, which will be in stores later this month!

 

 

 

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