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Curator Reviews

Nathan Englander

This goes on my short list of gigantical bestsellers that, when I read it way back in galleys, made me think, “This is going to be a gigantical bestseller—and truly deserves to be.” It’s just fantastically imagined and extraordinarily powerful.

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Ari Shapiro

Knowing how many awards this book won, I expected it to be a weighty and serious work of literature. So I was surprised to discover that it’s also a page-turner with relentless momentum that hurtles the reader through Whitehead’s incredible writing.

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