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Erin Somers is a reporter and news editor at Publishers Lunch. Her first novel, Stay Up with Hugo Best was a Vogue Best Book of the Year in 2019. Her writing has appeared in the New Yorker, Paris Review, New York Times Book Review, New Republic, New York Magazine, Atlantic, Esquire, GQ, Best American Short Stories and many other publications. She has been the recipient of an Emerging Writer Fellowship from the NYC Centre for Fiction, a fellowship from the Millay Colony, and was a 2020 finalist for a National Magazine Award. She lives in New York's Hudson Valley with her family. esomers.com
A compulsively readable, surprising, and wholly satisfying story of the way we long, now. Told with inexhaustible wit, Somers's novel is packed full of observations and flights of imagination so perfect in their particulars that their accumulation becomes luminous -- JULIA MAY JONAS Funny, chic and energetic, The Ten Year Affair sizzles with wit. One of the most entertaining novels on marriage I've ever read -- JENNY MUSTARD The Ten Year Affair is a hilarious and acutely observed account of early middle life. Somers writes with warmth, wit, and shimmering insight about the failings and strivings of decent people who wake up and find that life isn't quite working out. No other writer at work today is as alert to the comedy of everyday life and to the extraordinary realms of feeling that lie behind that comedy. I never wanted this novel to end. I loved every moment. Somers has written a classic of our era -- BRANDON TAYLOR, author of FILTHY ANIMALS The Ten Year Affair isn't just the best book about adultery since Madame Bovary; it's also a funny and deeply true novel about the role of the imagination in human existence, those banal long term daydreams that compete with your life while helping you cope with it. Erin Somers's wit is as cool, caustic and dry as liquid nitrogen, and her dangerous talent is on full display in this excellent book -- TONY TULATHIMUTTE, author of REJECTION Smart, sharp and incredibly funny . . . Explores the slippery complicated space of fidelity, parenthood and marriage . . . Thrilling . . . I loved this book for its deftness, humour and its remarkable acuity -- LYNN STEGER STRONG, author of FLIGHT Somers' approach to the affair is twice-refreshing - her masterful weaving of the imaginary with the real manages to juggle the banality of fantasy with scenes that are sexy or subversive . . . Somers' cool, intricate ode to millennial malaise satirises the roles her generation tried - and failed - to outgrow * * Kirkus * * A wry and ingenious tale of marital infidelity. Somers offers a sardonic view into the pressures of marriage and motherhood and the ambient temptation of adultery . . . Readers will find this hard to put down * * Publishers Weekly * * A beautiful book about selfhood amidst dependency. About how boring it can feel to get what you want. And about what love really means: the weight of it, the choosing of it * * LitHub * *
