Someone (McDermott novel)

Critical reception

• Writing in the New York Times, Janet Maslin praised the novel, stating “Someone” is a wonderfully modest title for such a fine-tuned, beautiful book filled with so much universal experience, such haunting imagery, such urgent matters of life and death.” Maslin later named Someone to her best of 2013 books list.
• Publishers Weekly called the book a “… deceptively simple tour de force.”
• The Los Angeles Times claimed, “Just as McDermott manages to write lyrically in plain language, she is able to find the drama in uninflected experience.”