The New York Times Book Review, William Ferguson
She has an unsettling ability to combine the atrocious and the comic.

Book Description
The stories...deal with some of the darkest areas of the human psyche; she has an unsettling ability to combine the atrocious and the comic...moving...arresting. New Your Times Book Review

FROM THE PUBLISHER

These stories roam the edges of society. They are the telling of ordinary lives found in the cracks and crevices. Her characters are bound by the enormity of self-made fate. In the opening story, "The Price of Acorn," a naive and hapless couple sell their son to a pedophile in exchange for a washing machine. "Inside Molly Newton" is a first person telling of a girl so severely beaten by her drunken father that she has withdrawn into her own imaginary world. In "Two Empty Chairs" Caple invites us into the darkly comedic world of a 71-year-old prostitute who is diagnosed with syphilis.

FROM THE CRITICS

William Ferguson - The New York Times Book Review

Caple has an unsettling ability to combine the atrocious and the comic. . . .The universal motive in this arresting volume may be the desire to deny the passage of time.

William Ferguson