Someday This Will Fit

Someday This Will Fit unfolds in a series of vignettes that range from the funny and familiar to the poignant and mournful, always compelling and crisp, deft and satisfying. Silverman is a wise, intelligent, compassionate guide to the vicissitudes of midlife.

Joan Silverman surveys our domestic landscape with a humorist’s wise and lancing eye. Her sentences hook deftly each to the next and keep us reading. The payoff is a gathering—and affirming—sense of recognition.

Joan Silverman’s splendid new book is a stealth primer on this thing we call life. There’s so much to feast upon inside these wry, incisive meditations. Silverman’s clarion voice rings wise and true and deeply empathetic at every turn. What a remarkable feat.

This delightful collection is filled with gemlike assertions, wit, and an unflinching eye that captures the truth of what it means to be human. I loved this book, which does double-duty as a perfect vacation read.

“Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom,” Ben Franklin wrote to a friend. Franklin would enjoy visiting Joan Silverman. Her deftly written vignettes are like spending time with a good neighbor, one who is observant, funny and a little chatty, one who knows the happiness of finding the perfect small spoon for a yogurt cup.

Joan Silverman’s essays remind us of the wonders of the everyday. A delight to read!