From the Dust Jackets: Some Favorite Book Blurbs

Like Little Women on an ayahuasca trip, Tehrangeles is delightfully twisted and heartfelt. If you set a TikTok mukbang at a Crazy Rich Persian wedding, you’d still have a long way to go to capture the extravagant eccentricities of the Milani sisters.

—Kevin Kwan from Porochista Khakpour’s Tehrangeles

Highly entertaining, often dazzling, and, as book reviewers like to say—but rarely about contemporary poetry—compulsively readable.

—New York Times Book Review from Kevin Young’s Blue Laws: Selected and Uncollected Poems, 1995–2015

Undeniably fascinating . . . a Monster Truck Rally of a satire, sort of Jonathan Swift does South Park with help from Rabelais, Gogol, Kafka, the Marx Brothers, Evelyn Waugh, and Joseph Heller.

—Milwaukee Journal Sentinel from Gary Shteyngart’s Absurdistan

I dog-eared so many pages the book almost collapsed—I almost did.

—Tommy Orange from Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

Dancing in Odessa is born under two signs—memory and ecstasy. Ilya Kaminsky proceeds like a perfect gardener—he grafts the gifts of the Russian newer literary tradition on the American tree of poetry and forgetting. This book is as fresh as a young leaf in the spring.

—Adam Zagajewski from Ilya Kaminsky’s Dancing in Odessa

Marvelously engaging, at turns witty, dry, wicked, even loopy. Reading A Wild Sheep Chase is like spending a splendidly foul weekend with the four Raymonds—Chandler, Carver, Massey, and Queneau.

—Frederick Barthelme from Haruki Murakami’s A Wild Sheep Chase, trans. Alfred Birnbaum

[This] will have you reading with your hand over your mouth in shock.

—O, The Oprah Magazine from Han Kang’s Human Acts, trans. Deborah Smith

No one who follows Manguel’s narrative to its conclusion need ever again feel guilty about putting off errands, chores, the bills, the kids, sleep—whatever—and curling up with a good, or even a great, book.

—Newsweek from Alberto Manguel’s A History of Reading

Time and again she comes running towards you with a bunch of hopes she has found and picked in the undergrowth of the times we are living in. And you remember that hope is not a guarantee for tomorrow but a detonator of energy for action today.

—John Berger from Rebecca Solnit’s Hope in the Dark