The Atlantic Fiction Issue 2011
MacGregor Tells the World a San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune and Library Journal
Best Book of the Year
Stop That Girl a Newsday and Library Journal Best Book of the Year
"McKenzie is an accomplished humorist and a developed stylist, and she wastes no time dazzling the reader with her clean direct language, her simple but searing use of metaphor and her unflinching eye. The paragraphs are put together with razor sharp concision, and the book is rich in both narrative and linguistic surprise...McKenzie is an original."
--The New York Times Book Review
"Vibrant and clear, these connected stories present a portrait of a family whose members are funny and hurtful and real, and watching them touched by time and change is very affecting. There is a lovely expansiveness here; surrounding the humor is the recognition that life is a serious deal." --Elizabeth Strout, author of Olive Kitteridge