In Dancing Madly, Beth Mead explores familial, romantic, and self love. She dives bravely beneath the surface to reveal anxiety, doubt, guilt, and the pain that comes with love, and she does so with a light touch, often using a wickedly dark humor and deceptively simple situations. Through the worlds she creates, worlds that can have air like cotton candy, worlds in which lovers end affairs by saying "We've come to a stopping point," Mead presses on our sore spots briefly but firmly, then, to our delight, dances madly on. —Mary Troy, author of Swimming on Hwy N