Critical Praise

" The Book of Laughter and Forgetting calls itself a novel, although it is part fairy tale, part literary criticism, part political tract, part musicology, and part autobiography. It can call itself whatever it wants to, because the whole is genius. "-New York Times"This book, as it bluntly calls itself, is brilliant and original, written with the purity and wit that invite us directly in. "

——John Updike, New York Times Book Review