“In Nicholas Claro’s debut short-story collection, This Is Where You Are, lives are suspended, often in a moment of devastation or in its slow ominous wake. Claro makes his readers dangle in these moments too, as men and women, youngish or drifting toward middle age, consider the wreckage of their lives. Is this self-sabotage or are these accidents? Arms break and legs break and cars crash as cautious drives wait at the light. These stories are rooted in a contemporary form of minimalism that pare back everything but the sticky, unsettling truth.”

- Daniel Hoyt, author of This Book Is Not For You and Shit List