Wait Till You See Me Dance: Stories

"The characters in Deb Olin Unferth’s story collection Wait Till You See Me Dance are often people whose potential is unfulfilled – an adjunct professor, an ineffective insurgent, disillusioned spouses, a bad father trying to mentor a prison inmate. The way she writes these people is reminiscent of the unsentimental, often absurd compassion of George Saunders, for whom there are no heroes and villains, just various kinds of achingly familiar weirdos trying to inhabit the same planet without more humiliation than is necessary."