Someday This Will Fit

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

This delightful collection is filled with gemlike assertions, wit, and an unflinching eye that captures the truth of what it means to be human. I loved this book, which does double-duty as a perfect vacation read.
~Kim Dana Kupperman, author of Six Thousand Miles to Home and The Last of Her: A Forensic Memoir

“Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom,” Ben Franklin wrote to a friend. Franklin would enjoy visiting Joan Silverman. Her deftly written vignettes are like spending time with a good neighbor, one who is observant, funny and a little chatty, one who knows the happiness of finding the perfect small spoon for a yogurt cup.
~Howard Mansfield, author of The Habit of Turning the World Upside Down

Joan Silverman’s essays remind us of the wonders of the everyday. A delight to read!
~Bernd Heinrich, author of Summer World and Mind of the Raven

Joan Silverman’s clear-eyed narrative mines small daily details for larger lessons about everything from music to mortality. With sharp observations and wry humor, Silverman delivers wise and timely home truths.
~Elizabeth Searle, author of A Four-Sided Bed and Tonya & Nancy: The Rock Opera