“Blake Sanz is an exciting fresh presence on the literary scene. His prose reminds me of William Kittredge in its authenticity. This first book made me jealous.”—Luis Alberto Urrea, author, The House of Broken Angels
“The Boundaries of Their Dwelling is a collection expansive and rich enough to hold the nature of family in all its facets. These characters go about abandoning and betraying and understanding and loving one another with all the complexity of real people. They convince, they live—and this collection is a stunning tapestry of their connections. Blake Sanz has written a beautiful, deeply moving book.”—Clare Beams, author, The Illness Lesson
“The stories in Blake Sanz’s The Boundaries of Their Dwelling pivot on acute moments as the hilarious gives way to the painful, the painful to the beautiful, and the beautiful to the truth. The characters in these stories are not lifelike so much as they are alive, rendered warm-blooded and human by Sanz’s pitch-perfect details and lucid prose. Here is a collection of dreamers young and old, all in search of home, family, love, a place where they can be fully themselves. It’s a riotous collection of stories that together capture the tumult of what it means to be alive.”—Brandon Taylor, judge, Iowa Short Fiction Award