“[A] collection of funny, endearing short stories … Each tale looks to the future in its own particular, touching way.” –Harper’s Bazaar

“A tenderly imagined story collection, one that traverses small towns and tropical islands, all the while revealing truths about parenthood, love, and growing up that you didn’t know you needed to hear, but are so immensely glad you did.” –Southern Living

“Fans of [Ramona Ausubel] and new readers alike will discover something to enjoy in Awayland… An eclectic, humorous mix.” –Real Simple

“Ramona Ausubel's collection Awayland takes readers around the world and even into Heaven in 11 magnetic stories about parenthood, loneliness, and love. Tender and heartfelt, Awayland is often also as funny as it is emotionally affecting.” –Buzzfeed

"The stories in Ramona Ausubel's Awayland are galactic in scope, massive in scale, and universal in their flawless execution. From Mars to the streets of the Midwest, Ausubel tackles modern mythology in a way that is utterly original and endless fascinating — and, at the end of the day, it just might teach you something about yourself.” –Popsugar

“Ramona Ausbel’s second short story collection continues to prove her a surprising, funny, and deft fabulist.” –B&N Reads

“Told in prose at once spare and image-laden, the stories are illuminating and memorable, with plots unfolding like exotic flowers, calm yet bizarre.” –Library Journal, starred review

“Everyday worries about pregnancy, mortality, and parents are given fantastical treatment in these playful stories… Ausubel’s best stories have an affecting vulnerability; fans of Kelly Link, Karen Russell, and Miranda July will want to give this a look.” –Publishers Weekly

“Eleven stories laced with humorous developments, mythic tendencies, and magical realist premises. Ausubel is, at heart, a fabulist, and the current collection puts this impulse in the forefront.” –Kirkus

“In vivid, precisely fashioned language, Ausubel spans the globe, from the tropics to the Arctic, in these 11 stories. … Vibrant stories that expand horizons and minds.” –Booklist

 
Praise for Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty:

“Weird and wonderful . . . Ausubel’s writing, melancholy and fine, shines in illuminating everyday scenes of life. . . . Even the throwaway details are terrific.” —The New York Times

“Diffuse and elegiac.” —The New Yorker

“A timely, sophisticated tale [that] explores what happens when a charmed life loses its luster.” —O, The Oprah Magazine

“Empty bank accounts. Goods taken for granted now gone. A familial fall from grace. An end to stability. Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty is this summer’s much-raved about new release, and with good reason. Pick this up if you want an imaginative read with a dash of drama and some deep insight on wealth and class in America.” —USA Today

“If there’s a novelist up to the task of charming a reader into submission, it’s Ramona Ausubel, who writes heartfelt, quirky fiction with winsome prose.” —Los Angeles Times

“Ramona Ausubel’s sparkling second novel, Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty, is packed with wisdoms . . . [this] glorious work will surely confirm her as a vibrant, memorable voice in contemporary American letters.” —San Francisco Chronicle

“Devilishly imaginative.” —Vanity Fair

“Ausubel charts the unfolding crisis with tenderness, wit and a sly understanding of wealth and its limitations.” —People

“Ausubel’s often whimsical prose is in top form yet again as she imbues the story with her signature touch of magic. This one’s just lovely.” —Elle

“A wealthy family loses, quite suddenly, its fortune. And with the money goes the decorum. What drama ensues is in the pleasure of reading Ausubel’s lyrical prose.” —Travel + Leisure
 
Praise for A Guide to Being Born:

“Each story in this collection finds a way to record the tensions between the corporeal and the invisible, the forces that animate us but ultimately can’t be dissected, our anti-anatomies. The dismay of coming to the final page is easily combated by following the example of Ausubel’s characters and beginning all over again.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Aggressively imaginative.” —The New York Times

“These stories reminded me of branches full of cherry blossoms: fresh, delicate, beautiful, expressive, otherworldly. I eagerly read from one story to the next.” —Aimee Bender, author of The Color Master and The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake