"These shockingly insightful stories, riddled with breathtaking observation, are also, frequently, laugh out loud funny. Wisdom and hilarity are such a gorgeous couple, and Miriam Cohen makes the absolute most of this pairing. Evocative of Lorrie Moore at her sharpest best, Cohen's is still an entirely new and very welcome voice." ―Robin Black, author of Life Drawing and If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This
"In Adults and Other Children, Miriam Cohen renders the minds of children with such vivid intensity and imagination that I couldn’t help but see our world anew. The stories take us on a journey of familiar terrain―a daughter coming to terms with her parents’ divorce, sisters about to lose their mother, a new boy in school―in an unfamiliar and unflinchingly honest way, allowing us to better understand the messy and complicated relationships of our lives. Absorbing, magical, sinister and yet surprisingly sweet, I’ll be thinking of these stories for a long time."―Fatima Farheen Mirza, author of A Place For Us
"By stretching the misconceptions of children so thin and so wide, Miriam Cohen creates a glittering, transparent fabric through which we can finally read more clearly the myths that invent us. Adults & Other Children reimagines the Bildungsroman, as childhood clashes with adulthood to create a beautiful and terrifying emotional storm. These stories will make you want to climb back into your past, and hold the child that you -- for such a short time -- belonged to."―Sabrina Orah Mark, author of Wild Milk
"In the weird and gorgeous tradition of Angela Carter and Kelly Link, Miriam Cohen has written a manifesto of postmodern womanhood. Her characters are hilariously neurotic, exquisitely self-diminishing, and yet grotesquely eloquent ― perverse poets all, wandering the streets of New York or suffocating in the decorated living rooms of suburbia, trying their dire best to navigate life's labyrinths."―Joshua Gaylord, author of When We Were Animals
"A chilling view of womanhood―made up of lies, secrets, and fear―expressed in elegant prose."―Kirkus
“Lies, misconceptions and self-deception are at the heart of Miriam Cohen’s funny, scathing, and touching collection Adults and Other Children.”―Foreword (starred review)