Quotations on
O My Darling

“This fine, intelligent novel should be required reading for anyone who is (a) in love, (b) engaged, (c) wed, or (d) planning on buying real estate, especially as a concrete expression of (a), (b), or (c). In On My Darling, with one scalpel-sharp sentence after another, Amity Gaige has cut a beautifully sad pattern into the skin of that rootless, troubled creature—the modern, secular marriage.”

“Given its level of sophistication and off-center wit, it’s a bit startling to realize that O My Darling is Amity Gaige’s first novel. The characters, beautifully drawn, are as unsentimental towards one another as their author is towards them and yet, wonderfully, this novel, with its many ambushes of lyrical moments, is deeply felt.”

“A sharply drawn, darkly witty, supremely intelligent guide to the souls of two deeply fearful people fighting to make a life together… Despite their flaws, Clark and Charlotte burst with truth and realness in this refreshing story of what ties two people together.”

“Generous, wry and bristling with humor, O My Darling is a gift to the reader. There are so many pleasures to be found here: indelible images, crystalline prose, and two characters that are rendered with such unerring insight and tenderness, they will continue to haunt us long after we have, with great reluctance, left them.”

“Amity Gaige seems to know everything there is to know about us. [The novel’s] details are so sharp and unique, every sentence carries the burden (and sometimes also the joy) of truth.”