"Most Perfect Things About People shows the big future is here. It's a badass book. Mark Jordan Manner is a badass writer." - James Frey, author of A Million Little Pieces

"Mark Jordan Manner's debut novel narrates the dissolution of an extended family after a tragedy, but through a kaleidoscopic prism: its views are from surprising angles, from points far apart in history, from siblings and from total strangers, now very near, now far. It refracts rather than reflects. The resulting collage portrays not just the anguish and growth of one tribe, but of the surrounding small town, with its grinding jobs and its basement apartments-indeed of a social class. Technically it is precise and ambitious, its voices distinct, funny, frightening and sorrowful. It glitters." - Russell Smith, author of Confidence

"In Most Perfect Things About People, Mark Jordan Manner shatters the Beally family, scattering their shards across his stories, covered in grit and still sharp along the edges. As his words pull the pieces back together, each fault-line reveals something bright, new and necessary." - Andrew F. Sullivan, author of WASTE