A starred review of my collection at Independent Book Review

Another one, and a generous one: a starred review of The Bedtime Emptying of Our World from Melissa Suggitt at Independent Book Review.

The Bedtime Emptying of Our World is a cohesive, wildly inventive collection. Each time you think you understand the shape of the book, author Joel Hans pulls the rug out from under you to reveal a strange, beautiful, heartbreaking direction.

And this, which rank very highly on the kindest way anyone’s described what I try to do with my writing:

Beneath every magical transformation, impossible creature, and dreamlike landscape is a question about how we love each other, how we lose each other, and how we continue forward anyway.

If you’d like to be pulled in a strange, beautiful, heartbreaking direction (aka, buy a copy), you can do that from the press or from Amazon.