Someday This Will Fit

Linked Essays,
Meditations
& Other Midlife Follies

 
“Someday This Will Fit unfolds in a series of vignettes that range from the funny and familiar to the poignant and mournful, always compelling and crisp, deft and satisfying. Silverman is a wise, intelligent, compassionate guide to the vicissitudes of midlife.”
— KATE CHRISTENSEN
Author of Blue Plate Special and How to Cook a Moose
 
“Joan Silverman surveys our domestic landscape with a humorist’s wise and lancing eye. Her sentences hook deftly each to the next and keep us reading. The payoff is a gathering – and affirming – sense of recognition.”
— SVEN BIRKERTS
Author of Changing the Subject: Art and Attention in the Internet Age
 
“Joan Silverman’s splendid new book is a stealth primer on this thing we call life. There’s so much to feast upon inside these wry, incisive meditations. Silverman’s clarion voice rings wise and true and deeply empathetic at every turn. What a remarkable feat.”
— SUSAN CONLEY
Author of The Foremost Good Fortune and Elsey Come Home
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Bauhan Publishing, 2019

 
 
 

 
Edgy, whimsical, and poignant essays about ordinary triumphs and travails.
— Kirkus Reviews
 

 
 

Q&A: Joan Silverman Explores Post-Its, Peanut Butter, and the Stuff of Daily Life
“We all spend a large chunk of our lives in the ordinary and the familiar. Exploring that is endlessly interesting.”
— The National Book Review

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