Normal People Don't Live Like This

Praise for Normal People Don’t Live Like This

“Dylan Landis has a keen eye for the right detail, and is a master of deciding what to include—and what to leave out. Leah and her enigmatic mother Helen are authentic, vulnerable characters, whose private truths are exposed at perfect, unexpected moments. Normal People Don’t Live Like This is a wonderful, intriguing, and original debut.”
—Elizabeth Strout, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Olive Kitteridge

“Tense and intense, Landis’s prose is as taut and alluring as her characters.”
—Newsday

“I can’t think of the last time I read a debut collection so powerfully alive.”
—Time Out New York

“Dylan Landis has a gift for creating characters … Watch her very carefully. Once you can create characters like Leah (or Angeline, Rainey and Helen), there’s no stopping you.”
—Los Angeles Times

“The characters in Dylan Landis’s debut story collection, Normal People Don’t Live Like This, are blessedly extraordinary.”
—Elissa Schappell, Vanity Fair

“You think, while tearing through the pages: This woman knows all my secrets. The intrigue of Landis’s stories lies in small gestures and the exploration of characters’ psyches with a thorough, delicate eye.”
—The Rumpus

Dylan Landis is the author of three works of fiction in the Rainey Royal Cycle set in 1970s Greenwich Village: the forthcoming List of All Possible Desires, Rainey Royal, and Normal People Don’t Live Like This. Her work has appeared in the O. Henry Prize Stories, Best American Nonrequired Reading, and other anthologies. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in fiction and lives in Los Angeles.

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