"Sharp, bold, and deeply affecting, Jackie Corley's stories are like
poetry made from the gritty stuff of hard-scrabble life. Dead garden
snakes and forgotten video games, gravestone statues that seem to
dance in the night: in Corley's able hands, the mundane, even the
ugly, are transformed. The young men and women who struggle through
her slim, piercing collection, stay with you long after you've
finished reading; tough-talking and scarred, tattooed and tender, they
search Corley's dirty, sparkling New Jersey streets for something
always just out of reach.
"A fiercely original debut. Corley is a talent to watch."
--Scott Snyder, author of Voodoo Heart
"Finally a 20-something author who is neither precious nor coddled.
Finally a young writer who writes about life as it actually is instead
of some trust fund prick's fantasy of America. Jackie Corley is almost
completely alone among the new set of writers in that she is actually
telling stories about real humans. And she is telling them well, with
the kind of immediacy that most young writers have had beaten out of
them in MFA factories. Corley is original and unforgiving. I cannot
say enough about Jackie Corley. She doesn't flinch. Read this book."
--Ian Spiegelman, author Welcome to Yesterday and Everyone's Burning
"I am tempted to compare Jackie Corley's writing to a strong cup of
coffee. It wakes you up, it gets you addicted, and sometimes it's
burning hot. Or I could say it's like whiskey–it's strong, it blurs
your vision, and gives you the guts to face the hard truths and bitter
pains of life. But forget about those liquid comparisons, because
Corley's work is solid! The Suburban Swindle unleashes a new, bold,
American voice that you'd be foolish to ignore."
-–Kevin Sampsell, author of Creamy Bullets
