'Englander's voice is distinctly his own- daring, funny and exuberant, keenly attuned to both the absurdities of life and its undertow of sadness and disappointment" New York Times
"Who is this Nathan Englander,so young in novelist years, but already possessed of an old master's voice?...One reads this novel in awe of Englander's talent."
--The New York Times Book Review--
"A mesmerizing rumination on loss and memory."
--Los Angeles Times--