“The way Miriam Gershow weaves the individual stories of the characters together is brilliant… Closer was a wildly entertaining, if devastating, ride.” BookTrib

"[F]resh and compelling, funny and sad, a book the reader will not easily forget.” Oregon ArtsWatch

“Closer echoes a time before the most hateful among us took the country’s reins, reckoning with the way everyone could hear what was coming, if they had only listened.” Necessary Fiction

“Readers know the characters in Closer (perhaps even attended high school with their real-life compadres) and will yearn to warn them, beg them for compassion, revel in their joys. For there is joy in this novel — the thrill of being fully human.” Micro Lit