"The stories in Neil Crabtree's debut story collection Believable Lies are bold, risky and wildly entertaining. Trust me—-you're going to be carried away to a more vivid and compelling world than the one you're living in. You'll be laughing so hard you won't realize you're crying. No one should be this good, or this funny, the first time out. Neil's genius is his ability to uncover the sadness that underlies the comic and the grandeur just below the surface of our sorry lives."

John Dufresne, author of Louisiana Power And Light and the upcoming My Darling Boy, available January 2025 from WW Norton