“I wonder if novels work for women because they give us a safe place to talk about our ish.” IfsGivingWonderNovelSafeSafe Places Author:Jennifer Weiner
“Steve Yarbrough's Safe from the Neighbors will take your breath away. Ambitious, funny, sad, smart, and beautifully crafted, it's everything a novel should be.” ShouldNovelSafeSmartBreathsNeighborAmbitious Author:Richard Russo
“Steve Yarbrough is a writer of many gifts, but what makes Safe from the Neighbors such a magnificent achievement is its moral complexity. . . . Safe from the Neighbors does what only the best novels can do; after reading it, we can never see the world, or ourselves, in quite the same way.” WorldWayDoeReadingCan DoMoralNovelSafeAchievementNeighborComplexityMagnificent Author:Ron Rash
“Steve Yarbrough is a masterful storyteller-one of our finest-and Safe from the Neighbors is a masterpiece. . . . This is a spellbinding, powerful novel.” PowerfulNovelSafeNeighborFinestStorytellerMasterpiece Author:Jill McCorkle
“Safe from the Neighbors is a novel of unusual richness and depth, one that's as wise about the small shocks within a marriage as it is about the troubled history of Mississippi. Steve Yarbrough is a formidably talented novelist, shuttling between the past and present with a grace that feels effortless.” FeelsPastNovelGraceWiseSafeDepthNeighborNovelistsShockUnusualRichnessMississippiPast And PresentEffortless Author:Tom Perrotta
“If I'm writing a novel, I'll probably get up in the morning, do email, perhaps blog, deal with emergencies, and then be off novel-writing around 1.00pm and stop around 6.00pm. And I'll be writing in longhand, a safe distance from my computer. If I'm not writing a novel, there is no schedule, and scripts and introductions and whatnot can find themselves being written at any time and on anything.” IfsWritingDealsMorningNovelWrittenSafeComputerDistanceScriptsGet UpSchedulesEmailEmergenciesIntroductionBlogsNovel Writing Author:Neil Gaiman
“Your characters are always your children. And while you are writing, you're keeping them safe. Now they're ready to go into the world and it's sad. I'm happy with the way the novel came out but all the characters' ending really saddened me.” WorldWayWritingChildrenCharacterNovelReadySafeOur ChildrenYour ChildrenSaddenedReally Sad Author:Yiyun Li