I was captivated by Sherrie Flick's meticulous and intelligent study of Margaret and Vivette, and the men they share. Reconsidering Happiness is a courageously intimate novel about the young women of modern America, their friendships, their betrayals, and their anxious cravings for everything from sex to pastry.

These are the stories that we tell ourselves and only ourselves, and they are better left unshared.

Secrets are like pregnancies hereabouts. You can hide them for a while but then they will start screaming.

I was captivated by Sherrie Flick's meticulous and intelligent study of Margaret and Vivette, and the men they share. Reconsidering Happiness is a courageously intimate novel about the young women of modern America, their friendships, their betrayals, and their anxious cravings for everything from sex to pastry.

To ask a novelist to talk about his novels is like asking somebody to cook about their dancing.

There is no remedy for death--or birth--except to hug the spaces in between. Live loud. Live wide. Live tall.

...crushed between the fears of going forward and the dread of going back.