"The Ten Year Affair isn't just the best book about adultery since Madame Bovary; it's also a funny and deeply true novel about the role of the imagination in human existence, those banal longterm daydreams that compete with your life while helping you cope with it. Erin Somers's wit is as cool, caustic, and dry as liquid nitrogen, and her dangerous talent is on full display in this excellent book." —Tony Tulathimutte, author of Rejection

"The Ten Year Affair is a hilarious and acutely observed account of early middle life. Somers writes with warmth, wit, and shimmering insight about the failings and strivings of decent people who wake up and find that life isn’t quite working out. No other writer at work today is as alert to the comedy of everyday life and to the extraordinary realms of feeling that lie behind that comedy. I never wanted this novel to end. I loved every moment. Somers has written a classic of our era." —Brandon Taylor, author of The Late Americans and Filthy Animals

"A compulsively readable, surprising, and wholly satisfying story of the way we long, now. Told with inexhaustible wit, Somers's novel is packed full of observations and flights of imagination so perfect in their particulars that their accumulation becomes luminous." —Julia May Jonas, author of Vladimir

"Smart, sharp, and incredibly funny, Erin Somers' The Ten Year Affair explores the slippery complicated space of fidelity, parenthood, and marriage. How do we continue to choose to love the people we have chosen, to not feel trapped inside those choices? Where and what are we reaching for when we reach outside them, and what is it that makes both staying and leaving so thrilling and so terrifying in equal parts? I loved this book for its deftness, humor, and its remarkable acuity." —Lynn Steger Strong, author of Flight