Twin Study
"Richter writes with volatile energy, hurtling through her stories while flitting seamlessly between the unusual and the mundane. She shows the repercussions of bad parenting, the loneliness of forgotten children, the struggles of the smallest creatures, and the frailty of age. While her observations may sometimes sting, Richter is never afraid to up her characters' antes. Often scathing, sometimes disturbing, and just as frequently funny, her stories occasionally wend off into the surreal - they are populated by Neanderthals, bong-sucking Bat Boys, and a long-suffering woman raising a clone of herself as a replacement part. Ultimately, Richter's flights of fancy are about pain, human and real and unrelenting, and very, very subtly, about humanity itself."--BOOK JACKET.