“Evelyn Hampton’s stories are marvels, spells cast by a magical hand. Here objects are ensouled; cats vanish by the hundreds; children shrink; mother-remnants persist. The exotic and the toxic intermingle, the has-been and the husband. I hear Pliny, Beckett, Lewis Carroll—echoes of other beguiling and clamorously spooky worlds. Hampton makes anything possible.”
—Noy Holland, author of
I Was Trying to Describe What It Feels Like
“I cannot say enough about Famous Children and Famished Adults. Structured with an oddball, stringent logic, this is a modern masterpiece that boldly sings in cadences funny, wrenching, linguistically bold, and sweetly hopeful. It’s the work of a time/space traveling superhero, a linguistic Ninja. Brava!”
—Lynn Crawford, author of Shankus Kitto: A Saga