Guess and Check is a Giron/Valdez Series for Unique Voices in Literature Book " . . . tough and funny and touching and harrowing."
"A stark, engrossing, Hemingway-esque portrait of a life spent in the margins."
--Kirkus Reviews
--John Barth
"...Guess and Check is spare, subtle and deadpan, Charles Simic married to Joyce Carol Oates. A beautifully constructed delicate narrative, a near dream of a book, a place...