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Before Little Miseries, Kimberly Olson Fakih wrote two works of fiction for children, High on the Hog (1992) and Grandpa Putter & Granny Hoe (1991), as well as the lexicon, Off the Clock (1994) and The Literature of Delight, a guide to funny books for kids. She worked in publishing for many years, as a freelance reviewer at The New York Times and elsewhere, later at Kirkus Reviews, and currently as a senior book review editor at School Library Journal. She is an Iowa-born, Minnesota-raised, and permanent New Yorker.
"""The book … shows how catastrophic the secret world of grown-ups can truly be on the delicate web that is a family … it shows Fakih as a gifted chronicler of children’s helplessness and familial angst."" -- Kirkus Reviews ""Kimberly Olson Fakih’s Little Miseries is a lively and energetic account of growing up in the Midwest in the last century, in a variegated family assailed by disasters great and small."" -- Lynne Sharon Schwartz, author of Truthtelling ""Little Miseries, indeed. But first there’s joy, wonder and resiliency. Fakih lovingly captures the rapture and mysteries of childhood en reroute to a loss of innocence that is heartbreaking yet triumphant."" -- Michael H. Weber, Oscar-nominated screenwriter and co-writer of (500) Days of Summer"
