ROBERT ANDERSON is also the author of Little Fugue. He lives in New York City and teaches writing at the Nationwide Institute in Flushing, Queens.

Finding a story collection like Ice Age was like rounding a corner in a museum and coming upon a roomful of Edward Hoppers. I was filled with a delightfully alternating current of strangeness and familiarity, and knew I was in the hands of an artist whose intelligence and yes, deftness, thrilled me. . . . [An] exceptional debut.

ROBERT ANDERSON is also the author of Little Fugue. He lives in New York City and teaches writing at the Nationwide Institute in Flushing, Queens.

Finding a story collection like Ice Age was like rounding a corner in a museum and coming upon a roomful of Edward Hoppers. I was filled with a delightfully alternating current of strangeness and familiarity, and knew I was in the hands of an artist whose intelligence and yes, deftness, thrilled me. . . . [An] exceptional debut.

ROBERT ANDERSON is also the author of Little Fugue. He lives in New York City and teaches writing at the Nationwide Institute in Flushing, Queens.

Finding a story collection like Ice Age was like rounding a corner in a museum and coming upon a roomful of Edward Hoppers. I was filled with a delightfully alternating current of strangeness and familiarity, and knew I was in the hands of an artist whose intelligence and yes, deftness, thrilled me. . . . [An] exceptional debut.