Critical Praise

"I’m reminded of the well-rubbed Kafka line re: A book must be the axe to break the frozen sea within us. Lethem’s book, with incredible fury, aspires to do little less. It’s almost certainly his best novel. It’s genuinely great."

—David Shields, author of The Thing About Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead

"! Lethem has done it again. When it comes to brainy adventures full of laughter and heart this master has few equals. What a joy from the first page to the last."

—Gary Shteyngart, author of Absurdistan and The Russian Debutante’s Handbook

"One of America’s finest novelists explores the disconnections among art, government, space travel and parallel realities, as his characters hunger for elusive meaning…… All truths and realities are open to interpretation, even negotiation, in this brilliantly rich novel….Lethem’s most ambitious work to date."

—Kirkus Reviews