"Robison uses a minimalist discipline and barely ruffled surfaces, but her hidden pictures of childhood and other states of vulnerability are boundless in their emotion." —The Los Angeles Times Book R
"Robison is both wise and entertaining, a technician with a sense of humor, a minimalist with a good eye for what can be salvaged from lives of quiet desperation." —The New York Times Book ReviewConti
"At first, Oh! seems a satire, a sitcom stripped of its sentiment and foolishness. But it is far more. Mary Robison is trying to show us how the the incredibly complicated dance of family life works."
A collection of thirteen stories Vogue called "subtle and substantial," part of Counterpoint's series of reissues celebrating this renowned authorAs Mary Robison's third book, An Amateur's Guide to th
In this funny, grouchy, wryly tender novel—first published in 1991—Mary Robison gives us a portrait of a marriage in very rough shape careening toward the breaking point, and of two magnetic and carel
"Robison's minimalism is more like a slap in the face: it's short, it stings, and you wonder who in tarnation did that to you." —The New York TimesEnter Eve. Based in New Orleans, she's a location sco