“Besides Runaway, the most compelling contemporary fiction I've read in recent months has been Wallace's stories in Oblivion and a stunner of a collection by the British writer Helen Simpson. Simpson's book, a series of comic shrieks on the subject of modern motherhood, was published originally as Hey Yeah Right Get a Life—a title you would think needed no improvement. But the book's American packagers set to work improving it, and what did they come up with? Getting a Life.”

Jonathan Franzen (The New York Times)
author of The Corrections