“[Usherwood] does a beautiful job of evoking that time of life on the cusp of independent adulthood, and the emotional shifts and tangles that come up. I enjoyed the subtle observations about class and social expectation, and how relationships begin and end. The fluency of the writing is great, it’s an immensely readable story.”
– Octavia Bright, judge for the Oxford Review of Books Short Fiction Prize 2024
