Reviews

• “I haven’t read anything better this year.”

• “Ia Genberg writes layered stories that resist easy categorization. They are a kind of tall tales that the author anchors in reality through precise portrayals of the ways people think, speak, and behave. The sharpness of Genberg’s powers of observation, her humor and delight in language make the stories crackle with life. /…/ Ia Genberg is a sharp stylist who effortlessly swings between the mundane and the profound. ”

• “Genberg has a joy in language and precision in expression – a luxury car is described as being as close to a mammal as a car can get without ceasing to be a car. /…/ Genberg captures, with intelligence and insight, the afflictions of our time; that smooth, qualified bullshit talk that makes truth or lies seem irrelevant.”

• “If it sounds complicated, it is in fact very entertaining reading. /…/ It’s the best [book] I’ve read in quite a while.”

• “Small Comfort is simply a wonderful and exquisitely executed literary mini-study that makes the reader think of Joan Didion, burst out laughing, and then choke on their kale smoothie.”