'Wait Till You See Me Dance' Is A Marvelous Waltz Of Misdirection
Deb Olin Unferth's story collection delights in going in unexpected directions, and her sensitively-drawn characters feel the full, real, often contradictory and uneasy layering of human emotion.
by Annalisa Quinn
Mar 26, 2017
3 minutes
"I'm not saying it's proper or right to love a student, and I'm not going to pretend I never did anything about it, because I did, but I can say I didn't do much," says the narrator of Deb Olin Unferth's title story, "Wait Till You See Me Dance."
"All I did was to bring the office assistant to the dance and threaten to kill her."
Unferth knows how to change direction. Her absurd
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