“A wondrous short story writer…A master tuner of the taut emotions that keen between parent and child, man and woman, brother and sister, man and beast.” — New York Times Book Review
“Erdrich is one of our major writers...and this volume is a good demonstration of her compelling stylistic innovations, not to mention her literary cunning.” — Washington Post Book World
“Erdrich’s stories don’t grow old. They grow more astonishing for how fresh they still feel. . . . You only have to read the first story . . . to get a whiff of authorial wizardry.” — Chicago Tribune
“Culled from 30 years as one of America’s most distinctive fictional voices . . . 36 affecting and inventive stories that dance around the Faulknerian world she’s created. . . . Within these stories there exist Erdrich’s poetic sentences and humane sensibility—and always another surprise on the next page.” — Boston Sunday Globe
“These tales, like the shining car in the title story, have a velocity all their own.” — O magazine
“Louise Erdrich is an immensely satisfying storyteller... She finds grace in action, using the gentlest of language.” — Los Angeles Times
“Erdrich can sketch a novel’s worth of character and incident in just a few pages.” — Entertainment Weekly
“Compiled from 30 years of work, spanning an enormous variety of registers . . . The Red Convertible reveals Erdrich to be one of America’s finest writers of short fiction.” — Dallas Morning News
“Erdrich’s characters are unforgettable... Grade: A.” — Rocky Mountain News
“A collection of brave and inventive stories.” — Ms. magazine