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With her critically-acclaimed debut novel, Still Life with Spouse, Lauren Monk recognized himself as being a smart and achingly hilarious chronicler of domestic life and was praised as “a pleasant new voice in American fiction, a voice that immediately evokes the wry, understanding writing of Lorrie Moore” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times). Fox’s fresh book papers with one of these pleasures—fearless wordplay, humor, and nuance—and requires us the issue in the centre of each companionship: What can you quit to get a friend’s joy?   For Willa Jacobs, viewing her closest friend, Jane Weston, is much like looking in a mirror on really a great evening. Visitors presume they're siblings, an evaluation Willa privately likes.