Praise for Preparation for the Next Life
“The finest and most unsentimental love story of the new decade.”
—The New York Times
“[Preparation for the Next Life] has the boundless, epic exhilaration you expect to find only in a writer as mighty as, say, Walt Whitman.”
—The New York Review of Books
“Dizzying in its ambition and exhilarating in its triumph.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“So much of American fiction has become playful, cynical, and evasive. Preparation for the Next Life is the strong antidote to such inconsequentialities.”
—Joy Williams
“As bold and urgent a love story as you’ll read this year.”
—The Wall Street Journal
“ Lovely and soft, tragic and cutting . . . maybe the most surprising novel of the year, for the author’s sudden, astounding appearance on the scene, yes, but more for the temporal details matched and succeeded by glowing tenderness.”
—Vanity Fair
“Preparation for the Next Life … is an astounding first novel about a world so large there is, sometimes, nowhere to go; a world so small the people in it, sometimes, get lost.”
—The New York Review of Books
“A bare-knuckled tale about two lost souls.”
—Oprah.com
“A sledgehammer to the American dream.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“One of the most acclaimed debut novelists of the year.”
—New York Observer
“ This novel is nothing less than a triumph, worthy of every heroic adjective a critic could throw. It is a reminder, plain and simple, of what fiction is for.”
—Financial Times
“ Atticus Lish writes with beauty, striking attention to detail, and painful honesty about life on the margins of America—about the people we don’t see, the places we don’t go.”
—BuzzFeed
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