“A bravura send-up of academic foibles.”
“[It] has the disorienting quality of a fourth-dimension dream on a three-dimensional bed, interrupted by comic, down-to-earth rousings.”
“Entertaining, intelligently constructed, mind-bending.”
“Bittersweet and often hilarious.”
“Crisp, ecstatic chapters and wonderfully likable characters make this parody of academia wickedly fun.”
“An extraordinary, fresh piece of fiction.”
“Readers are destined to fall in love with both Alice and Lethem’s sentences as they embrace in this comic, cosmic novel.”
“Never afraid to tweak genre, Jonathan Lethem is one of the most inventive writers in America.”