"Short stories with a corrosive, bent, off-beat quality brighten From the Bottom Up. Characters one can't easily forget . . . Wilson's work has a Tennessee regionalism that shifts to universal dimensions."
—Malcolm Boyd, Los Angeles Times

"Wilson has a way with words and a way with people and she puts them together marvelously well . . . Vivid, often eccentric characters . . . Unusual and memorable."
—Publishers Weekly

"Wilson equals the uneasy, elegiac grace of J.D. Salinger's short stories."
—Commonwealth

"She writes of simple people with simple ideas that somehow go awry. Wilson is carving out her own share of the Southern territory and she hones it exceedingly well. Her characters are funny and exasperating and entertaining."
—Nancy Shapiro, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"Leigh Allison Wilson is a very talented short-story teller. . . . She cares with gentle sadness for her curious Southerners, and she paints them with vivid rue. Her talent is striking, her first book superb and successful."
—Joseph J. Feeney, Best Sellers

"The view of the world is 'from the bottom up,' as sturdy and unsentimental as country music . . . notable and worthy addition to collections of short fiction."
—M. Soete, Library Journal

"Wilson is most impressive and shows herself to be a writer for all regions."
—Virginia Quarterly Review

"This collection of stories by Leigh Allison Wilson reveals the durability of the human heart . . . language shaped into art."
—Norbert Blei, The Milwaukee Journal

"Wilson is a fleet and clever writer."
—Kirkus Reviews

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