Lily Meyer is a translator, a critic, and the author of the novels The End of Romance and Short War. She is a staff writer at The Atlantic. Her stories and translations can be found in The Dial, The Drift, The Sewanee Review, The Southern Review, and many other journals.

If Grace Paley and Miranda July had a baby, the result would be The End of Romance. Hilarious, off-kilter, sparklingly special, deliciously Jew-ish and disarmingly deep, this book made me feel 10 percent less dead inside

Lily Meyer is a translator, a critic, and the author of the novels The End of Romance and Short War. She is a staff writer at The Atlantic. Her stories and translations can be found in The Dial, The Drift, The Sewanee Review, The Southern Review, and many other journals.

If Grace Paley and Miranda July had a baby, the result would be The End of Romance. Hilarious, off-kilter, sparklingly special, deliciously Jew-ish and disarmingly deep, this book made me feel 10 percent less dead inside