Introduction by Kate Wilhelm.
"'Queen of Gonzo' [Leslie] What drags love out of its gooey, schmaltzy
rut and takes it for a joyride in this exuberant collection of 17
stories... No matter how brief or long, no matter how bizarre, each tale
in this collection grabs readers and demands they rethink how they see
all the myriad forms of love." - Publisher's Weekly, Starred Review
"CRAZY LOVE is crazy good! Leslie What's brain is evidently crowded with
strangeness, awfulness, wonderfulness, wildness, madness of all
kinds... and love. Lots of love. How lucky we are that her imagination
runs deep, runs true, runs onto the page in crazily beautiful
stories-and lucky, so very lucky, to be holding those stories right now
in our hands." – Molly Gloss, author of Dazzle of Day and Heart of
Horses
"If unbearable guilt makes you wish to suffer vicariously, and
professionally, for others; if you suddenly find yourself the father of
thousands and thousands of children; if your ambition is to occupy the
Chair of Hermit Studies at the University of Oregon, or to be a ghost
in a hot-air balloon, or if you have considered wearing a gorilla mask
while having an abortion – CRAZY LOVE is your operating manual. These
seventeen achingly funny and hilariously sad stories will give you
invaluable advice on how to love, how to be crazy, how to be human." –
Ursula K. Le Guin, author of Lavinia and Annals of the Western Shore
