About the Author

Amy Grace Loyd is an executive editor at Byliner Inc. and was the fiction and literary editor at Playboy magazine. A recipient of both MacDowell and Yaddo fellowships, she lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Reviews

"A wonderful novel, beautifully written and sensuous, rich with emotion and psychological truth." --Jess Walter, author of Beautiful Ruins "[A] mesmerizing debut...beautifully, even feverishly described. As Celia discovers, the magnetic pull of other people's everyday experiences proves impossible to resist." --Entertainment Weekly "Loyd succeeds at the most difficult task for such a circumscribed setting--making the granular details of her characters' travails feel as though they added up to more than the sum of their parts." --The New Yorker "From start to finish, Loyd's prose flows exquisitely through the story, as she limns the depths of the protagonist's mind, the complexity of human intimacy, and the idiosyncrasies of each new character with the grace of a seasoned novelist." --Vanity Fair "Celia's journey is beautifully charted in this debut, with prose that mirrors her existence in her barely furnished apartment--confined, spare, but swirling with fierce emotion and insights." --People "An intimate portrayal of the walls erected by a woman after her husband's death, and how impulsive encounters with others break them down....Loyd's character study is narrow in scope but long on intensity and emotion." --Publishers Weekly "Debut novels don't come any more sure-handed and deftly written than The Affairs of Others. But it's the damaged, brokenhearted Celia--Amy Grace Loyd's brave, all-in protagonist--who latches on to us and refuses to loosen her grip." --Richard Russo, author of Empire Falls "Amy Grace Loyd has written an uncommonly accomplished first novel. Beautifully written, suspenseful and often disturbing." --Jennifer Haigh, author of Faith "Hypnotic, beautiful, and dangerously erotic, this book trembles with feeling, every sentence a breath, every sentence a seismographic wonder of observation. Scuba-diving once, I watched minute sea grass oscillate with the motion of the sea, and this is how I think of the narrator of this magnificent novel---she sways with every movement of the world, both interior and exterior, registering it all, and always you wonder, with an aching heart, what will become of her." --Jonathan Ames, author of Wake Up, Sir! "Rich and fresh...The writing is just so wonderfully good: What other authors labor over, Loyd seems to just toss off. Throughout there are sentences to linger over, or for me to grin at with envy. Loyd has written a Rear Window story of a confined society described with Hitchcockian, voyeuristic detail." --Ron Hansen, author of Mariette in Ecstasy