Critical Praise

“A glorious identity-bending, multigenerational epic... Cooper’s storytelling skills are phenomenal. She effortlessly shifts perspectives, [and] throughout, her experiments are divine: They serve to make this peculiar family feel real.”

——Time Out New York

“Cooper has an affinity for creative liberties, even in anything-goes 21st-century fiction, liberties of a stunning sort. This is not another generic everyday family saga, not when it starts in the Russian pogroms, jogs past Charles Lindbergh and closes with a guy who impersonates rapper Eminem at bar mitzvahs.”

——Seattle Post-Intellegencer

“T Cooper travels an enormous distance in this new novel, from Russian pogrom to middle-class tract living in Texas. This is a fresh, funky, astutely observed and frankly different version of the immigrant story, making the most of lost and found identity in the mix of modern America.”

——Amy Bloom

“It’s refreshing to read a novel that makes a veritable game of its storylines. The book is further enhanced by Cooper's considerable descriptive powers, which bring to life such varied tableaus as a Russian pogrom, a Lower East Side gang fight and a Lindbergh rally in Oklahoma City. It is the story of Esther that resonates long after the book has been closed.”

——The New York Times Book Review