“The world of these stories is a grotesque mirror image of our own, where repressive gender roles are amplified to the point of comedy. Excellent, biting satires from a unique feminist lens.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“Lange’s prose is smart and surprising, invigoratingly icy and delicious.”
—Joy Williams, author of Concerning the Future of Souls
“In these stories that are insightful, deliciously weird, and often laugh-out-loud funny, Lange reminds us that life, real life, is a kind of delirium. Day Care has made me greedy; now I want to see more of the world, more of our beautiful batshit existence, through Nora Lange’s lens.”
—Maggie Smith, bestselling author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful
“Lange is unwilling, uninterested, and unsympathetic to storytelling that traffics in the maudlin, mundane, or murky. The stories of Day Care are brutal, hilarious, and relentless; they are pedal to the metal, which is to say: divine and not a little bit insane.”
—Hannah Pittard, author of If You Love It, Let It Kill You
“Nora Lange writes with the precision of Joy Williams, and the heart of George Saunders, in a voice that is all her own.”
—Daniel Alarcón, author of At Night We Walk in Circles
“The stories in Day Care are delicious paradoxes—found moments from daily life that have been extracted, exalted, and merged with the uncanny. In exquisite, highly-original prose, Nora Lange writes from the lonely heart of the modern world, where characters must behave erratically, dangerously, even badly, if they are to feel anything at all.”
—Kevin Maloney, author of Horse Girl Fever and The Red-Headed Pilgrim