What the Critics Say
About Lon Otto
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In the "Fellin Sister," Otto updates Aesop, as a timid laboratory assistant drills a hole
in his baseboard to watch a pair of lascivious sisters become animals, and make animals
of the jocks who join them. "The Birthday Present" is a sexual fable where the moral
twists around a wife's affair. The husband forces his wife to give him gifts of penance
on her birthday, and she responds by abolishing her birthday. "How I Got Rid of That
Stump" is a tour-de-force of graphic description, in which a dreamy piano-tuner muses
on a world of sumo wrestlers and trolls. This is the narrative music Otto has mastered,
a balance of imperfections more beautiful than any celestial absolute. — from the
publisher
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... this is a diverse, continually surprising collection of stories. ... his writing is
clear and fresh, and he has the poet's eye for detail. ... Otto is an intelligent,
talented writer, and A Nest of Hooks is sure to captivate many readers.
— Library Journal
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