“The Complexities of Intimacy offers a topology of dreams, a world in which deformations and revelations are the same; and its stories are true in the exact same way dreams are true. Modifiers that fit this book include: baroque, eerie, elegant, funny, good, and thoroughly upsetting.”
—David Foster Wallace
“The signs and wonders of muted unhappiness, subtle cruelties, and obscure dementias, not to mention the absolutely fantastic, are herein revealed in a language that is curiously dispassionate and placed. This is an amazing book.”
—Gilbert Sorrentino
“Mary Caponegro [is] one of our great national literary treasures, a daring writer who reminds us in every line that the true business of fiction is intelligence and presence and compassion. This book is a delight, a challenge, and a celebration of the human mind and heart.”
—Gilbert Sorrentino
“The Complexities of Intimacy richly confirms Mary Caponegro’s reputation as one of our most perceptive explorers of the mysterious, often perilous universe of family. With language as intricate as the terrains of love and fear, desire and dread these connected stories evoke, Caponegro continues to reinvent the Gothic as a personal narrative of the fragility of being flesh and blood.”
—Bradford Morrow
