“[Graham] can, like the magician pulling an endless string of knotted scarves from beneath his cuff, perform the fiction writer’s greatest feat—making us see through his eyes, compelling us to believe, without a doubt, in the world he has created.”
—John Gregory Brown, Chicago Tribune
“These interiors map the blueprint of a place just beyond the drywall of the familiar. Through close observation and the sparest of architect’s lines, Graham reveals how inner need half makes the terror of the external landscape. His stories consistently prove that psychological figuration, when pushed far enough, transmutes into strange magic. Realism and animism, it seems, are only a compact predicate apart. Connection’s designing line is limned in imagination, a quality Graham both knows about and exercises with abundance.”
—Richard Powers