Interference

"Interference is a terrific page-turner, but it's also a haunting, powerful look at the way families and friendships entangle us all. Berry is a sharp-eyed, engaging writer, and she deftly captures the terrors, ruptures and intimacies of one seemingly ordinary neighborhood, always finding a precarious beauty in her characters' lives. This is a book that is terrifying, startling, and very hard to put down."—Rebecca Godfrey, author of The Torn Skirt and Under the Bridge

"Michelle Berry's Interference is a literary hockey game, the lines of meaning on the fresh arena ice criss-crossing and accumulating as her characters deke out one another in their forward momentum. An unexpected kiss, the gift of an ugly hat, a grade-school assembly on sexual predation, a facially-deformed handyman, the loss of a child — Berry's novel, told in her signature crystalline prose, asks us to pay attention to the moments that force us to recalibrate our game, in order to play fully awake." —Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer, author of All the Broken Things

"Michelle Berry's Interference is an immaculately constructed page-turner that is also, miraculously, a redemptive meditation on loneliness and community. Read it for the beautiful writing, the cast of unique characters, and for a certain tender brutality that infuses the telling — by turns moving, darkly funny, and ultimately warm and illuminating." —Carrie Snyder, author of The Juliet Stories

"Interference is a suspenseful, compassionate, awesomely creepy, wise, and ultimately hopeful novel. To read it is to appreciate its deftly interwoven plot lines and perceptively drawn characterizations, and to be spurred to 'only connect.'" —Kim Moritsugu, author of The Oakdale Dinner Club

"True to its name, Interference slyly subverts the expected and pulls back the curtain on the danger and darkness of family life in the new millennium, leading the reader through a roundabout of intersected lives from which we cannot soon recover. From cancer to child abduction, here are all the touchstones of mid-life; Berry leaves us reeling in the knowledge that more than any of these, it is fear — brazen as ever — that bullies its way into the game and threatens to blow the works." —Elisabeth de Mariaffi, author of How to Get Along with Women