Dean Bakopoulos
“‘In spite of my efforts I couldn’t succeed in extracting myself from my own wilderness,’ says one of the charmingly direct narrators in Glen Pourciau’s wonderful new collection, View. This sentiment captures the entertaining, somewhat surreal, and wholly palpable and contemporary struggle at the core of all of these memorable stories, chronicles of confusion and heartache in the generic malls, cubicles, and chain restaurants of an America that is increasingly adrift in every way.”
Samantha Hunt
“I’ve never much been interested in books that solve mysteries. No. I much prefer those like Glen Pourciau’s View, a collection that describes the boundary where what’s everyday meets the mysterious. View allows its reader to swim in life’s inexplicable depths, floating through stories that glow with a strange, new, irresistible light.”
Jensen Beach
“A profound book. Glen Pourciau illuminates the commonplace and reminds us that the greatest mysteries are found in the quiet unspoken, and often uncomfortable intimacies of our lives. These stories—set in offices, at shopping malls, around kitchen tables, in quiet suburban neighborhoods—transcend their everyday setting to conjure up a startling and startlingly true portrait.”
