"Superb writing." –Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Reading a Petterson novel is like falling into a northern landscape painting–all shafts of light and clear palpable chill." –
Time "Petterson's youthful novel is an openhearted bildungsroman....His sentences yearn to fly away into poetry." –
James Wood, The New Yorker "Spare, slim, and haunting,
It's Fine by Me...offers the same moody prose and brilliantly unsentimental character revelations that have made Petterson a literary star." –
Caroline Leavitt, The Boston Globe "The melancholy story, and the superb writing that propels it, are both raw and honest–the brutality of the father, the disregard of printing-press colleagues, the ugly street fights–and also deeply compassionate." –
Minneapolis Star Tribune