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Critical Praise

"Remarkable. . . . A profound adventure story."

——The New Yorker

"Inspired. . . . The Piano Tuner is a brilliant debut."

——Miami Herald

"Intoxicating, full of sights to see, histories to learn, stories to entertain."

——USA Today

"An ambitious, adventuresome, highly unusual first novel that offers pleasures too rarely encountered in contemporary American literary fiction. . . . [Mason is] a gifted, original and courageous writer."

——The Washington Post Book World

"Luminous. . . . Mason's writing achieves that kind of reverie in which every vision, tone, flavor and sensation is magnified."

——Los Angeles Times