In Heaven Everything Is Fine - Reviews

"This is the saddest story deconstructed. As a collage of ill-fated love triangles, this neo-Pop romance may be for its generation what Barthelme's Snow White was for the sixties. DeShell's debut is provocative, compelling, and too smart to be hip- the author is his own psychosexual and philosophical brat pack."

-Robert Steiner author of Bathers and Dread

"Jeffrey DeShell's 'Exploration of Surfaces' is a virtuosic analysis of human relationships using mathematics and Scrabble, producing a story that is witty, touching, and insightful despite (or perhaps because of) its experimental typography."

-Steven Moore, Dalkey Archive Press Review of Contemporary Fiction

"In Heaven Everything Is Fine plays many fields. Lists of lit-crit and rock-and-roll Top Ten hits, headlines, TV news, and ads are part of the story. DeShell's quirky, bittersweet characters wander in and out of clubs, bars, and apartments, hungering in a deadpan, I-don't-really-care way for a sort of integrity, for a kind of meaning. In Heaven Everything Is Fine is as tender as it is smart."

-Lynne Tillman author of Haunted Houses and Absence Makes the Heart