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cherry "Ms. Joseph's sense of the apt detail, of the rapid-fire of human commerce, of the way the important gets hidden in the flippant, the hilarity of it all, the sadness, too, the sympathy she emits and provokes for the complexity of just living -- all that makes this book irresistible to me."
-- Richard Ford

"Diana Joseph's book is gritty, elegiac, and witty - a paean to the many ways in which we all love and ache. Her keenly observant writing is compassionate yet utterly without sentimentality. I'm Sorry You Feel That Way begins slowly and simply, then builds like a symphony. Its uncommon, everyday love stories are peopled with flawed, compelling characters who reflect the author's own humanity like shards of mirror, creating a work of unexpected power and truth."
-- Susan Jane Gilman

"Somehow hard-boiled and warm-hearted all at once, Joseph's stories have an unflinching honesty and a wry appreciation for the absurdities of masculinity and motherhood."
--Sarah Vowell

"I am grateful for every minute I spent in the delightful company of Diana Joseph. I picked up her memoir late one afternoon, and proceeded to ignore my children, my dinner, and even my bedtime. I gobbled it up in a single sitting. Funny and poignant, it's a real treat."
--Ayelet Waldman