When the World Tips Over

Praise

* Instant New York Times Bestseller *
* #1 Indie Bestseller *
* USA Today Bestseller *
* Kirkus Best Books of the Year *
* Irish Times Best Books of the Year *
* The Children’s Book Review Best Books of the Year *

★ “In this multigenerational epic sprinkled with magic, Nelson (I’ll Give You the Sun) tackles grief, love, and the ways in which history commingles with the present. . . . Intricately rendered [and told] via myriad alternating perspectives . . . Nelson takes readers on a whirlwind journey toward a profound and satisfying destination.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

★ Nelson expertly weaves [all the threads] to create a splendid and complex tale. Her writing is magnetic. [Readers] will fall in love with her characters [and] be rewarded with a satisfying and soul-thrilling ending. This long-awaited follow-up to I’ll Give You the Sun is well worth the wait. —School Library Journal (starred review)

★ “A multilayered [and] sumptuous example of fabulism, [When the World Tips Over] is steeped in the mysteries and missteps of the human condition . . . Luscious, start to finish.” —Shelf Awareness (starred review)

“When the World Tips Over is transcendently beautiful. It bursts with life and spills over with heartache and love.” —Nina LaCour, Printz Award-winning author of We Are Okay and Yerba Buena

“Sublime, intricate, and dazzling, When the World Tips Over kept opening and opening before me like a glorious map of treasures. I loved all of its delightful, flawed, sensitive characters, and the magic inside each of them. Jandy Nelson has created an epic and intimate tale. I adored it.” —Helena Fox, award-winning author of How It Feels to Float and The Quiet and the Loud

“Jandy Nelson is a rare, explosive talent. Her prose is vivid, breathtaking, and drenched in passion, and her stories remind me why words can change the world.” —Tahereh Mafi, New York Times bestselling author of the Shatter Me series

“Jandy Nelson is a true virtuoso, and When The World Tips Over left me speechless. I am fervently in love with this brave, funny, tender, exuberant beating heart of a book.” —Becky Albertalli, New York Times bestselling author of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda and co-author with Adam Silvera of What If It’s Us

“A delirious, intoxicating spell of a book destined to end up on many important award lists and to firmly lodge itself within many, many hearts.” —The Irish Times

“100% Nelson’s signature fabulism and evocative, lyrical prose . . . Readers will be satisfied by the emotional collision of the various plotlines and the richly drawn main and secondary characters. . . . A technicolor fever dream offering readers a sensory feast.” —Kirkus

“[A] complex family saga about self-understanding, relationships, secrets, and passed-down family trauma. . . . Traversing a wide range of topics and emotions through multiple perspectives and formats, World contemplates each with due attention and nuance, [achieving] a quilt-like story both in its warmth and in its patches coming together to make a beautiful narrative.” —Booklist

“Jandy Nelson weaves an unforgettable tapestry of love, loss and magic realism. [Her] lyrical writing has a folksy, dreamy quality in this rewarding and complex multigenerational epic.” —The Observer

“A gloriously intricate and expansive YA/adult crossover . . . Nelson’s style is playful [yet her] writing reverberates with the pain of loss and longing . . . Almost nobody [in the novel] is who they initially seem, and often seemingly random moments turn out to have a far deeper significance. [Readers] will find that [the book] more than repays the effort they put in, and it may offer an excellent gateway to the work of Gabriel García Márquez, Isabel Allende, Laura Esquivel and many others.” —Just Imagine

“Featuring intricately interwoven love stories, curses, rivalries and misunderstandings, Nelson’s first book for ten years is a complex, seductive YA heartbreaker with a touch of magical realism.” —The Guardian

“Absorbing [and] moving. [The] structure keeps the pages turning and builds suspense, [offering] a lot of food for thought about family, love, hate, sorrow, joy, and more. [This] sweeping generational family epic is magical and moving.” —Common Sense Media (a Common Sense Selection)