"In No One Wants to Live Here, Mark Holden turns fantasy and reality inside out, showing us the frail thread that holds them together and the raw edges that our superegos scrabble to keep hidden--the things we would never want to reveal in a million years. But in this world, to quote one of his characters, 'a million years was up.' Holden's sharp, deadpan eye is a seam-ripper that lays bare our tattered, basted-together interiors." --Kate Moses // "The mundane and the shocking are neighbors in Mark Holden's powerful collection of stories No One Wants to Live Here. So are his...