Like Blood in Water - Reviews

"There is much to be savored—and indeed learned from—this wonderfully opaque, yet at times surprisingly lucid and tender, collection of lapidary absurdities from Planet Tarnawsky."

—-Mad Hatters' Review

"Tarnawsky's are the second opinions we seek, almost recognize, then do, for they are made of the sounds, power sources, bizarre jobs, people coming our way, fitted together both by us and a culture by turns demanding and uncaring if we sleepwalkers notice or not: alarming, intelligent, caught again and again in the grasp of the author's surprise and yearning."

—Joseph McElroy

"Tarnawsky is the real artist. Like Blood in Water carries his experiment deeper into the American night, with work that is bright and moving and original. Everyone needs to taste these works of one of our most daring and powerful writers."

—Steve Katz

"When I get rich I'll get a pied-a-terre on Yuriy Tarnawsky's planet. It's very wild on the surface and cool and calm in the interior. The palm fronds don't decay."

—Andrei Codrescu