“Hagenston creates incredibly creative stories where characters deal with a variety of very real emotions in somewhat fantastical situations, either at home or abroad. At its essence, this enjoyable collection explores how nothing is ever exactly as it seems.”—Booklist
“The Age of Discovery and Other Stories is a wonderfully dark and strange place, filled with dream bakeries, modern-day witches, robots, and pickpockets. And here too are stories of parenthood, marriages gone wrong, and people longing to be freed from the ghosts that haunt them. A beautiful and fierce collection.” —Alexander Weinstein, author of Universal Love
“These stories are ambitious and inventive. . . . Each time, the most compelling element is not the strangeness of the intricately imagined future but the ways in which the characters learn to interact within it.” —Susan Perabo, author of Why They Run the Way They Do