Loved and Lost: A Relationship Trilogy

"Mr. Brown seems to understand perfectly the day-to-day rhythms of the modern 'young adult' relationship. Unlikely, like his first book Clumsy, is pretty much impossible to put down." -- Dan Clowes
 
"Something about the way Jeffrey Brown draws these stories makes the saddest, dirtiest, most humiliating things that can possibly happen to a person seem weirdly innocent. The scratchy simplicity of the drawings makes the people in them all seem guileless and sweet. You feel like you're reading about some very well-meaning children who also happen to have sex, smoke pot and drink. Maybe it's just that Jeffrey Brown is a very nice man, and he projects this niceness onto everyone around him, even people who aren't treating him so well. You can open to any page and find something unusually bare and honest about these stories. They're surprising, even though half the moments in the book are ones you've probably experienced yourself. Hard trick to pull off." -- Ira Glass, This American Life, NPR
 
“Any Easy Intimacy... is an unmediated, raw and immediate account, and rings so very, very true that I cannot imagine it not speaking, directly and movingly, to anyone who has ever loved and lost.” — Neel Mukherjee, The Times (UK)
 
“Jeffrey Brown’s work is charming and fantastic.” — Whitney Matheson, USA Today
 
“Funny, sad, and a little embarrassing, Jeffrey Brown... delivers the look at real life that other forms of ‘reality’ entertainment falsely promise.” — Andrew Arnold, Time