“It takes a crazy kind of genius to craft adult fables that are as dark, bizarre and hilarious as those in My Goat Ate Its Own Legs, and Alex Burnett certainly possesses it. In this collection he comes across like the bastard spawn of Richard Brautigan and Hans Christian Andersen.” — Albany Times Union
“Burrett’s imagination is as fertile as that of Jorge Luis Borges’s, and he’s more readable, and funnier….these 31 tales are as moreish as pistachio nuts, and much more substantial….Burrett’s imagination just keeps spinning and spinning.” — The Independent on Sunday