"Hauntingly Beautiful. Little Shoes is a very short story, but it packs more genuine, raw emotion into its pages than most full-length novels I’ve read this year. Reading this made me feel a profound sense of grief, but also a strange kind of hope. It shows that even when a war can take away your home, your safety, and your family, it can’t actually kill the love or the memories you hold onto. It’s a incredibly haunting, beautiful, and deeply human story that left me sitting in silence for a long time after I finished the last page."

—Reader Review

"The ugliness of war becomes intimate here, with children and mothers who want to do their best to shield them from this thing that cannot be escaped."

—Reader Review