Praise for GAG published by Roundfire Books in 2017. Available for purchase here.

“Melissa Unger’s gem of a first novel is a vivifying, colorfully imaginative piece of work that unveils a deeper dimension and pushes us out of the realms of our comfortable normality. From the very first sentence we topple down from the cliffs of realism into a world just one lopsided step from ours. GAG - brief but brilliant, shines out with a unique glimmer in the skies of the contemporary novel.”

- Claire LeJeune | San Francisco Book Review

Gag is the most unsettling and unexpected of Parisian love stories. It examines two characters whose secrets bind them together rather then keep them apart. I was unable to put Gag down with its Martin Amis like acerbic wit and constantly surprising turn of events. It's a sour little morsel, but one you can't help but devour.

– Christina Wayne, CEO, Assembly Entertainment; television producer and executive: Mad Men, Breaking Bad, and Copper.

Gag is a delectably twisted version of the American-in-Paris story; a tale of hurt, loss, redemption and love, where damaged people collide… The plot careens from one surprising turn to another, keeping the reader enthralled until the last, crazy, heartbreaking page.

– Mira Kamdar, author of Motiba’s Tattoos & Planet India

Unger's Kafka-esque tale sweeps from Brooklyn to Paris to points Beyond, into a strange new world which grows stranger by the page.

– Charles Graeber, author of The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder