literary fiction upside ya head

get ready for an instant classic! released this month, The Secret Lives of People in Love by Simon Van Booy is an absolutely gutwrenching collection of short stories that walks the perfect line between internal dialouge and external situations. from the very first story, Van Booy gives us the chance to look at the lives of others through a slit in the blinds, a peephole into the human condition. the stories take place everywhere from France to Kentucky and don't miss a beat in between.

Van Booy has written such effective, precise and perfect prose that certain sentences pop so brightly off of the page that you want to call someone and recite the lines. Secret Lives makes you want to read slowly, lanquidly, so you can pull it all in, absorb every fragment and piece of the characters that seem so much like yourself or everyone else.

Van Booy will soon find himself ranked among the greats if his future works are this poignant, inspiring and absolutely vibrant. not reading this book could be the biggest mistake of your life.