“Formally daring, relentlessly probing, Kirstin Allio’s writing heaves the reader into a world of predation and initiation, habit and sally. Double-Check for Sleeping Children joins the ranks of singular short story collections such as Jayne Anne Phillips’s Black Tickets and Garielle Lutz’s Stories in the Worst Way. I was floored by this book.”
—JoAnna Novak, author of Contradiction Days: An Artist on the Verge of Motherhood— -