The Temple of Air: Stories
..."strongly plotted...and "hard hitting...McNair's plainspoken yet imaginative, complexly unnerving, and haunting stories raise essential questions of fate and will, appearances and truth, guilt and compassion." -Booklist Online"The stories in Patricia Ann McNair's debut collection The Temple of Air are steeped in a particular brand of hospitality and violence. They are definitively Midwestern, navigating deftly between the everyday and the disturbing, the prosaic and the poetic." - Newcity"...an immersive read..." -Time Out Chicago“McNair’s plainspoken yet imaginative, complexly unnerving, and haunting stories raise essential questions of fate and will, appearances and truth, guilt and compassion.”  —Donna Seaman,Booklist