From broadly comic to subtly disturbing, but always fascinating, the stories in Mexicoland evoke a bizarre empathy with the strangeness of the expatriate experience.

—Sea of Cortez Review

Amusing, astonishing, magical.

—The Gringo Gazette

Mercer captures the experience of living in a small Mexican town and exaggerates it, pulls it out, tweaks it at the corners and offers it back to us as a delightful assortment of unforgettable characters.

—Annie Smith, Poet (see her review)

Lots of good things here.

—Granta