Nightwork is a masterful dreamwork, revealing with startling clarity the dark and unsettling sexuality that lies just beneath the surface of the mundane. Usually no names are given, and when they are they don't matter much. The sense of urgency, of necessity is sustained through this work from the first page to the last. The writing is spare and the stories brief, creating an effect akin to prose poetry. . . . Schutt excels at painting corrosive images of corrupted innocence and at evoking a seething, sexualized violence that looms underneath the surface of her stories.
Settings are domestic and familiar, yet made disturbing with longing and secret. . . .
Every one of these exquisite stories deserves our closest attention.