"...smart and subtly heartbreaking...This Close is about the way people evolve over time; the numerous faces any individual wears over the course of his or her life, and the near-impossibility of truly knowing anyone." Click to read the whole review. … [Read more...]
The Minneapolis Star Tribune
The Star Tribune calls This Close an "impressive" collection. "The rich, moving stories of This Close capture the joy and ache of living." Click to read the whole review. … [Read more...]
NPR
The writer and critic Jane Ciabattari reviews This Close for NPR. A highlight: "Kane shows such tenderness toward these spiky, exhausted, forlorn, uncertain people that she allows us to sympathize with their all-too-human flaws. We know these people. They are our family, our friends and neighbors. They are us, at our most vulnerable." Click to read the whole review. … [Read more...]
The Village Voice
"[JFK] talks to us about her love of difficult characters, being a guinea pig in an e-reader experiment, and how she got over her fear of talking on the telephone." Click to read the whole Q&A in the Village Voice. … [Read more...]
The Nervous Breakdown
The writer Edra Ziesk reviews This Close for The Nervous Breakdown. “Kane writes with a wonderful clarity. The characters may feel uncomfortable or unclear about their relationships with one another, but the reader never does. . . . [These are] skillfully wrought pieces by a writer who knows exactly what she’s doing.” Click to read the whole review. … [Read more...]
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