Tales of students, artists, and wanderers seeking connection as they strive to forge new paths in foreign places: Rome, Paris, Russia, and a body changed by pregnancy. The settings may be grand and distant, but the characters' concerns are intimate and recognizable. Savas sees the struggles of modern life and relationships with an elegant clarity and is breathtaking in her precision.

Vulture, "28 Books We Can't Wait to Read This Summer"

Alliances and affections shift, understandings waver and beliefs are challenged in this collection of stories which individually and collectively convey the difficulties of maintaining connections in a fractured world. Subtle but clearly drawn sketches of the ties that bind and that, inevitably, come undone.

Kirkus Reviews, starred review

Savas captures the complexities of desire and loss in this gorgeous collection . . . With unsparing grace, Savas tenderly illustrates the struggles of her characters as they seek fulfillment. There's much to love in these brilliant stories.

Publishers Weekly, starred review

Savas' prose is an X­ray-an acute portrait of the tender frequencies that make a life.

Raven Leilani, author of LUSTER on THE ANTHROPOLOGISTS

The Anthropologists is about love, youth, and that most profound and elusive of subjects-happiness. Full of delicacy, wisdom and wit, this is another gorgeous work from one of my favorite writers.

Katie Kitamura, author of INTIMACIES on THE ANTHROPOLOGISTS

[Savas] writes with both sensuality and coolness as if determined to find a rational explanation for the irrationality of existence.

Sarah Lyall, The New York Times on WALKING ON THE CEILING