Zdybel’s first collection is the best domestic short fiction, each phrase so aptly tuned to emotion, that I’ve read since Alice Munro’s Too Much Happiness. Her incisive, pared-down prose and her insight into family life and friendship mark her as a writer to watch in the years to come. In this story, a twentysomething woman discovers her own notion of feminine sexuality while skinny-dipping with her best friend’s mother during a thunderstorm.

First published in The New Quarterly, Fall 2018 and in the collection Equipoise, Exile Editions 2021