READERS LOVE ALMOST TALL"A shrewdly funny and movingly insightful new story from a writer whose work I've admired for a long time." — Alexander Chee"I LOVED this story! What great characters & visceral descriptions--it was funny and intelligent and I couldn't put it down." — L. Brown"I loved just about every minute of this story." — Emily HertlerABOUT ALMOST TALLIn “Almost Tall,” fourteen-year-old Dinah finds herself plucked from her provincial midwestern ballet class and dropped in her uncle’s glittering New York penthouse. What starts out as a lonely summer quickly becomes a whirl of cocktails and haute couture under the mercurial attention of her uncle’s bombastic and insecure partner, Eddie. With remarkable poise, she struggles against a city that seems determined to turn innocence into cynicism and the young into “strangers to youth.”PRAISE FOR VESTAL MCINTYRE"An author is lucky to bring one character so vividly to life; the gifted McIntrye has done it for all of his." - The New York Times Book Review "These stories, whose depths and wisdom are enclosed in a style of measured grace and pellucid balance, bring to mind Lorrie Moore and Tobias Wolff." - The Times (of London) "Like Alice Munro, Vestal McIntyre creates whole worlds in his short stories that the reader is reluctant to leave....McIntyre's humor and lightness of touch are beguiling." - The Guardian (U.K.)"Breathtakingly well-crafted" - San Francisco Bay Times ABOUT VESTAL MCINTYREVestal McIntyre is the author of the novel Lake Overturn and the story collection You Are Not the One, both of which were named Editor’s Choices by the New York Times Book Review. His stories have appeared in Tin House, BOMB, The Boston Review, and Open City. Vestal lives in London.