“Early in reading The Presentation on Egypt, I came across a moment of such pure narrative electricity, I knew then that I would go on to read everything else Camille Bordas had written.”—Parker Tarun, Washington Square Review
“I’ve been telling people for years that Bordas is one of our greatest living short story writers. Her new collection, One Sun Only, showcases her unique command of voice, tone, and tension. . . . It’s a great concept album on how we experience life, death, time, and space—with no skippable tracks.”—Esquire
“Camille Bordas is an expert chronicler of misfits. . . . [These stories] range widely in tone and subject matter, but they are united by the profound empathy and warmth with which Bordas evokes her characters.”—Los Angeles Review of Books
“I, for one, could listen to Bordas’s characters talking and thinking all day. One Sun Only is a truly effortless collection.”—The Irish Times
“One Sun Only is one of the best new collections I’ve read in a long time, not just for lines which pack in pathos and humor, conveyed through a character whom Bordas makes lively and real, but also for the pleasant experience of reading several such pieces back-to-back. How nice to move between their carefully crafted little worlds, and to be continually surprised.”—The Telegraph
“[Stories] brimming with human frailty, vulnerability, and the delicious pain of living.”—The Chicago Review
“Told with sparkling energy . . . Joy, sorrow and worry bubble under the surface, and Bordas beautifully teases out these emotional truths.”—The Daily Mail
“Highly recommend[ed] . . . imaginative, wry.”—The Independent
“There’s bound to be something here to captivate you.”—Express
“These stories don’t close so much as continue inside you. They tilt the world and don’t set it back, leaving you to live with the shift.”—Morgan Talty, author of Fire Exit and Night of the Living Rez
“Bordas’s narrators share a particular sensibility—smart, mordantly funny, and sharp-eyed about contemporary life on both sides of the Atlantic—but the stories themselves never land where you might expect.”—Nell Freudenberger, author of The Limits and Lucky Girls
“[Bordas’s stories are] perfectly formed marvels, funny, skeptical, self-aware, and humane. I love them for their seeming lightness: there [is] clearly a super-keen intellect at work, but one keen and confident enough to express itself as simply as possible, to let itself be fully metabolized by the story, with no showy remainder.”—Literary Hub
“Leave a mark.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review
“Sublime.”—Booklist
“Utterly delightful.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review
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