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In Crash & Tell, Lori Baker plays with a variety of narrative voices and styles, skillfully treading the line between traditional storytelling and the literary avant-garde. The collection provides a unique account of women’s lives, exploring the dark side of romance, workplaces laced with the surreal, and familiar neighborhoods made strange through the lens of memory and murder.

The stories range from the comical re-imagining of Jane Goodall’s life among the apes— told from the eyes of Jane as a debutante escapee—to a professional research subject who outwits a cunning psychiatrist. In other stories, a photographer must come to grips with a peculiar family obsession; a bored wife on vacation experiences an unexpected seaside interlude with a strangely menacing dentist; a car crash leads to the most unromantic of romances; and alienated suburbanites value memories (and ghosts) over people.

From Crash & Tell: “Virginia finds him charming, and why not? She doesn’t know that for a week now he’s been nosing the big red Continental around town like a fifty-thousand-dollar penis, looking for likely and attractive ladies to poke. In the last three days he’s gotten three phone numbers that way. And it won’t be until later that she notices the ferrets.”

Baker’s stories are wildly funny yet serious, jarringly uncanny yet realistic; though they seem to come from a different time and place, the anachronism never rips the reader from the narrative dream state. Enter into the darkly whimsical world of Crash & Tell, and be reminded once more what stories can do.