Rock, Paper, Scissors

""Laced with sex, marital problems, family drama, and money woes, Aidt's supremely cultivated novel is concerned with the struggle to connect with those we truly love and the consequences of remaining distant. Aidt writes with verve, passion, and a sharp edge, animating a smart set of characters who must fight for truth and happiness.""—Publishers Weekly ""Rock, Paper, Scissors is a story you'll want to keep reading until the bitter (very bitter) end.""—Tony Malone, Words Without Borders ""The dynamics Aidt reveals to us, and which drives her linguistic expression (abrupt, breathless sentences mirroring rather than penetrating the consciousness of her characters) consists on the one hand in the sheer manic nature of late-modern existence (surface haste, stressful energy, frenzied consumption), and on the other in an—if I may be so bold—authentic sexual energy full of release potential.""—Lilian Munk Rösing, speech in honor of Aidt receiving the Danish Critics' Prize ""A domestic drama that merges the mundane and the grotesque.""—Kirkus Reviews ""Aidt tells this story of fear, paranoia, and resentment with such skill that you'll find yourself reading it way faster than your eyes can take in words.""—Bookishly Witty ""With Rock, Paper, Scissors, Aidt documents the destructiveness and vitality, but also the vulnerability, of human existence. K.E. Semmel's translation is exact, capturing the poetry and precision of Aidt's sentences. This novel should do much to push Aidt further into the English-language literary scene.""—The Quarterly Conversation ""I highly recommend Rock, Paper, Scissors—it is one of the best novels I have read in a long time. Aidt's writing is free of superlatives and affectations; yet it is so vivid that I could picture every scene.""—Asymptote