PRAISE FOR MY ONLY WIFE

“Jemc’s subtle touch is evident in the focus and attention of My Only Wife. The reader’s heart stirs and stops on her whim. This is a lovely, finely tuned book.”

—Amelia Gray, author of Threats, Museum of the Weird, and AM/PM

“Jac Jemc’s My Only Wife operates with the calm, pristine clarity of an enormous marble room. In moving, methodically arranged sentences, one comes across the surpassing surfaces and relics of a kind of intimacy that seems an increasingly difficult proposition to rightly preserve. At last, here is a novel concerned with timeless dedication, love, and respect, which phrased through Jac Jemc’s steady warming eye needs no punch line or coincidence or cataclysm to give true glow to the glow itself.”

—Blake Butler, author of There Is No Year and Nothing: A Portrait

“I adored this book. I adored the slippery, enigmatic wife of the title and I adored her adoring husband and I adored every lovely, heart-breaking sentence in this deftly written, beautiful book.”

—Elizabeth Crane, author of When the Messenger Is Hot and We Only Know So Much

PRAISE FOR THESE STRANGERS SHE’D INVITED

“The word that kept coming to mind as I read this chapbook once and twice and a third time was ‘impeccable.’ The writing is quite crisp, almost intricate. Each sentence almost had an aphoristic quality.”

—Roxane Gay, author of An Untamed State and Ayiti

“Each one seems a set piece, interchangeably, a curio on a slanting cabinet shelf, a mix of play and seriousness, a way of spooling up emotions and spinning them into tiny, hushed things. I would not be surprised to see this thing—poem, hybrid, flash?—alongside the gold-plated petrified bones of a deep sea fish or a looking glass or a dagger or a thimble made of crushed and varnished black bread or maybe even a type of large gleaming hook.”

—Sean Lovelace, author of Fog Gorgeous Stag and How Some People Like Their Eggs

“Smart, sharp chapbook. I felt pulled through each section seamlessly and ended up reading this three times in a row. ‘Section 8’ took the cake for me, but nothing disappointed here.”

Sarah Rose Etter, author of Tongue Party