“What Shonk accomplished is nearly miraculous: she took material that could have been painfully maudlin and instead created one of the most honest and bitingly funny portraits of grief in contemporary fiction.”
— Aimee Levitt, Chicago Reader
Katherine Shonk is the author of the novel Happy Now? and the short-story collection The Red Passport. She recently completed a novel about friendship, motherhood, and immigration in the Trump era.