Jaffe’s convincing portraits of the dispossessed are moving, insightful glimpses of the human spirit under stress.

      NY Times Book Review

Harold Jaffe is a master of the disembodied voice. These fictions—transgressive, political, dryly comic—are grounded in an ancient tradition, that of the speech of the storyteller. Interlocutors talk as if out of dark caves, and the result is a marvel of conversation that takes the reader to places somehow beyond the “real world,” only to comment, often searingly, upon its absurdities.

     Toby Olson

If there can be no successful revolution without love, there can be no successful revolutionary literature without love either. These voices from the submerged population call us in, and we can’t resist them. They have a secret to tell us in their own accents.

     Fanny Howe