Critical Praise

"Keret’s greatest book yet --- the most funny, dark, and poignant. It’s tempting to say these stories are his most Kafkaesque, but in fact they are his most Keretesque."

—Jonathan Safran Foer

"Etgar Keret’s stories are funny, with tons of feeling, driving toward destinations you never see coming. They’re written in the most unpretentious, chatty voice possible, but they’re also weirdly poetic. They stick in your gut. You think about them for days."

—Ira Glass, host and producer of "This American Life"

"A brilliant writer . . . completely unlike any writer I know. The voice of the next generation."

—Salman Rushdie

"Keret can do more with six . . . paragraphs than most writers can with 600 pages."

—Kyle Smith, People