Michelle Richmond strikes the perfect balance of rural past and urban present in her fiction. As a native of Alabama (and now a San Francisco diehard), she takes a unique approach to her characters, at once delicate and deliberate, that's full of city sensibilities and venturous diction. No One You Know, Richmond's third novel, is a family saga set against the backdrop of San Francisco's café culture and intelligentsia.
– Laureen Mahler