“Great book! Pairing two divorces—one personal, one national—within a novel that’s funny and beautiful is something few writers could do. Thank you, universe, for Kurt Andersen and this page-turner.”—Gary Shteyngart, New York Times bestselling author of Vera, or Faith
“Kurt Andersen plumbs the depths of our national struggle as a metaphor for a personal one . . . and vice versa. Simultaneously amusing and distressing, Clever, nuanced, and a joy.”—Jake Tapper, CNN Anchor and New York Times bestselling author
“Kurt Andersen is the most brilliant social novelist of our time, in the tradition of Tom Wolfe and Don DeLillo, but even funnier and deeper. With a light touch and instinct for telling details, he mixes pitch-perfect satire with profound insights.”—Walter Isaacson, New York Times bestselling author of The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
“One of our most brilliantly observant and thoughtful writers is compelling us to contemplate an American future of disunion and AI domination in a novel that is all the more powerful for its sobriety, its realism, and, yes, its humanity.”—Jon Meacham, #1 New York Times bestselling author of American Struggle
“With wit, fizz, and that rare ability to articulate big ideas that haven’t yet been articulated, Andersen perceives the world on a different frequency from the rest of us.”—Jennifer Senior, Pulitzer Prize–winning Atlantic writer and New York Times bestselling author
“Intoxicating . . . [Kurt Andersen] does things with words no one else can.”—Stephen Dubner, New York Times bestselling author of Freakonomics
“Explores the implications of economics, AI, media, politics, science, and other elements as they shape both the country and the individuals who live within it.”—Chicago Tribune
“A speculative state-of-the-nation novel . . . refreshingly full of absorbing characters. . . . In Fantasyland and Evil Geniuses, Andersen traced the fault lines that have threatened the American experiment ever since its foundation . . . The Breakup is in many ways an imaginative sequel to his recent nonfiction, except that his polemical gifts are coupled here with a Dickensian flair for comedy.”—Air Mail
“Andersen’s love and grief over what’s happened and is happening to this country spill onto every page.”—Newcity Lit
“With wide-ranging intelligence and his trademark wit, Kurt Andersen has written an epic elegy for a country strained past its breaking point, and imagined an eerily plausible version of our dark national future.”—Tom Perrotta, author of Ghost Town
“It is Kurt Andersen’s oracular perversity that one of the few institutions that survive the country’s demise is the college tour. So here is one last American road trip . . . confronting the great question Robert Frost posed: What to make of a diminished thing? And as Garry Shandling would say, No flipping—the ending is pure Hitchcock.”—Caitlin Flanagan, author of Girl Land
“A harrowing and profound social satire set in the near future, rich in characters and insight, sometimes painful, often funny, beautifully written.”—Anne Lamott
“A rich, incisive study of manners and morals in the American twenty-first century . . . Pointed, funny and unnerving, The Breakup conveys a sense of inevitability.”—Susanna Moore
“Road trip meets corporate intrigue meets political violence in an ultra-polarized near-future America.”—Kirkus Reviews
