Alexander writes with a brash, comic, and socially sensitive touch that recalls Carol Shields. This isn"t hip, trendy, urban writing. It is unflinching, vivid, and frequently domestic. Nino Ricci described the collection as possessing `an unbridled urgency and wit.... At once eccentric and precisely observed, they seem to hum with the energy of everything in life that is unreasonable and can"t quite be contained."