Alternative Facts

"These fictionalizations investigate their real-world counterparts with a surprising amount of humanity and complexity, and the prose reveals the author's attention to craft . . . A bold and often eerie set of tales that skillfully explore life's what-if complexities."

-Kirkus Reviews

"These are stories that will stay with you. Maybe because of how absurd, yet somehow believable they are. Maybe because of their unconventional formats, or because of the intensity of diving so deeply and so compassionately into the intimate and personal inner worlds of these flawed and complex characters."

-Independent Book Review

"The pleasures of reading Greenberg's stories are multitudinous and mind-boggling. There is wonder and exhilaration and hilarity, surprise-astonishment-at every turn, and such beautiful, persuasive strangeness throughout that one feels the world has gone atilt. These stories are disturbing, wildly thrilling, sometimes scary, fun. (Perhaps this is how it feels to ride a mechanical bull-if the bull had heart and was also very, very smart?) Alternative Facts offers a glorious simulacrum of life. All great fiction does this, of course-but Emily Greenberg has done double (triple, quadruple, octuple) duty by building her narratives upon what we think we already know. So buckle in and get ready to be thrown."

-Michelle Herman, author of Close-Up and Dog

"Smart, funny, insightful. These stories make me want to find the mind that made them, burrow inside, and feast for days on a world that's strangely familiar but just skewed enough to show me where I come from. And possibly where I belong. A poised and exciting debut."

-John Haskell, author of The Complete Ballet and American Purgatorio