The May-June 2008 issue of Utne Reader includes an enthusiastic review of Stacy Bierlein’s edited collection of short stories, A Stranger Among Us: Stories of Cross Cultural Collision and Connection.

“This anthology of international fiction explodes with unexpected combinations of place, ethnicity, and nationality. . . . Fiction, here, is well suited to the task of telling truths: Unfettered by factual accuracy, the dreamlike and disconcerting scenarios cast cultural realities in sharp relief.”

The University of Illinois Press is distributing A Stranger Among Us for OV Books. Stacy Bierlein will be signing copies of the book at the University of Illinois Press booth at BookExpo America in Los Angeles on Saturday, May 31, at 2:00 PM.