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Winner, Edna Ferber Fictions Book Award, 2024. "Reading Gee, That Was Fun: 7 Days of Mayhem, 1983 was disorienting in the best way, like reading Renata Adler as scatterplot historical reportage. Fromberg refracts the titular seven days into vignettes that set the absurd and the banal, the outrageous and the humorous, the fictional and the archival, on the same stage as the political theater of the Reagan era. What results is a riotous trip through shopping mall food courts and Senate chambers full of anarchic wit and an astute rejection of easy metanarrative in favor of a much wilder, and perhaps truer, mayhem." --Gabriela Garcia, author, Of Women and Salt