“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

“There is joy in this novel — the thrill of being fully human.” Micro Lit