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Critical Praise

"A superb achievement. He is a wise and bleakly funny writer with rare gifts of empathy."

——Ian McEwan, author of Atonement

"Moving. . . . Think of The Sound and the Fury crossed with The Catcher in the Rye and one of Oliver Sacks's real-life stories."

——The New York Times

"This is an amazing novel. An amazing book."

——The Dallas Morning News

"Gloriously eccentric and wonderfully intelligent."

——The Boston Globe