“Corinna Vallianatos can make an entire soul come shining out of the smallest phrase.”―Kevin Brockmeier

“These dark, devastating stories are love meditations, each offering a secret lesson on how to navigate our new world as woman, daughter, mother, artist. Page-turners each one, full of power, brilliance, and racing energy.”—Deb Olin Unferth

“This book is so good, so full of wisdom and inventive turns of phrase and perfectly insightful observation, so ruthlessly attuned to the thrilling dark heart of things, that I started to feel envious and a bit spooked and began underlining sentences on every page. . . . One of the best new collections I've read in years.”—Eric Puchner

“All I ever want to read is writing that is precise, surprising, and funny; Origin Stories has all of those qualities, and more. Corinna Vallianatos’s elegant, agile stories spark with inquiry and insight into what goes on between people, and inside ourselves.”—Rachel Khong

“In graceful, steely prose, Origin Stories conveys Vallianatos’s unique understanding of interpersonal relationships. . . . The strength of her protagonists’ resolve and the ways in which they contend with crises are enchanting, disturbing, and provocative in turn. A superb collection.”—Camille Bordas

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