Critical Praise

"Lucia Nevai has written an eloquent, warm-hearted, often very funny book that concerns a lonely young woman's quest for a home. Tamara Johanssen wants to be sheltered by love, of course, but she'll settle for an affordable rent and some reasonable neighbors. What makes Seriously so appealing is that Nevai doesn't give her heroine any of the above, and yet lets her find what she's been searching for anyway."

——Suzanne Berne, author of A Crime in the Neighborhood

"Nevai delivers pleasures both large and small in sly, lively prose. She has a neat ability to make her descriptive sentences do double duty as jokes...She has a sure sense of metaphor....This assured novel...is sprightly and then some. Nevai's voice has wisdom and charm, and with Seriously she announces a large talent."

——New York Times Book Review

"It was with deep and abiding joy that I read Lucia Nevai's new novel, Seriously... Nevai is a writer of spare yet rich and aching prose, who makes brilliant, wry observations. Every word counts...Without condescension, Ms. Nevai captures the dark and claustrophobic side of small-town life...supremely honest and well-written."

——Pia Catton, The New York Sun

"Seriously is an engaging, quirky tale about a young woman starting over, about the prickly pull of family ties, the intoxication of illicit romance, and the redemptive power of art."

——Elizabeth Benedict, author of Almost