Ida A Novel
"Esdale’s innovative approach results in an enriching contribution to Stein scholarship. [...] Highly recommended." – Linda Simon,Choice"Stein  constructs a cubist portrait or skewed biography of Ida [and her]  contradictory desires—wanting a home, needing to escape; wanting to be  known and not. [...] [T]here’s a bounty of tension and release [and]  [r]elease from textual and narrative tension comes, in part, through  Stein’s remarkable voice. [...] The editor, Logan Esdale, has written an  excellent introduction (and notes throughout) containing necessary  biographical and textual information." — Lynne Tillman,The New York  Times Book Review“The strangest book I read [when I was young] wasIda, by Gertrude Stein, which my mom gave to me without much fanfare. This must have been when I was in high school. It’s an odd book, with a telescoping narrator and that new-brain prose of Stein’s. My first encounter with very simple sentences looted of sense. I loved it.” — Ben Marcus, weirdfictionreview.com