THE APPLE'S BRUISE
197 pp., paperback
ISBN 0-7432-7052-5

"Dazzling, thrilling, and as full of shocking wonder as a snowstorm in the Sahara, Glatt's stories don't just push the literary envelope, they transform it in dangerously inventive ways. The things we can, can't or won't do for love, the way desire turns us into outlaws, and the steep cost of connection—it's all here, all hauntingly real, disturbingly funny, and in a word: brilliant."
—Caroline Leavitt, author of Girls in Trouble and Coming Back To Me

"Lisa Glatt's stories are brave and ruthless and blessedly tender when they need to be. She writes about the mortifications of desire without playing to the balconies. Instead, she reveals shame and lust that bubble hopefully inside all of us." —Steve Almond, author of Candyfreak, My Life in Heavy Metal and The Evil B.B. Chow

"Glatt knows that life is strange enough as it is, and she prefers to mesmerize simply by paying almost prayerful attention to the danger
and sorrow that seep through the cracks made by loss and betrayal;
she can make even the most wordless, seemingly throwaway moments thrilling." —Elle

"Glatt has a sharp eye for catching the incongruous detail that nicely derails her characters' tidy sense of themselves . . . . Polished, taut writing we want more of." —Kirkus Reviews