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“Vuong is a mightily gifted observer... moving and rarely less than excellent.”

"Not so much briefly gorgeous as permanantly stunning.”

“Vuong writes with a clear beauty and insistence unlike any other writer working today.”


“[A] series of high notes that trembles exquisitely almost without break... Marvelous.”
"Vuong peels apart phrases and reconfigures them into new, surprising ideas.”

“[L]uminous, shattering, urgent, necessary.”
--Celeste Ng
Paperback on Sale 6/1/2021
“Vuong’s deeply felt work might just be the first great fiction of this modern, homegrown travesty.”

“When writing is this good,
who needs air?”
-- Jacqueline Woodson
“Raw...fearless. [P]rose as radiant and assured as his poetry.”

“[O]ne of the best novels I've ever read... This book is a masterpiece.”
--Tommy Orange
“A raw and incandescently written foray into fiction by one of our most gifted poets.”

“[A] burning effigy of The Way We Live Now, sending the idea of “American values” up in flames.”

“[T]ruly a masterpiece.”
--Max Porter
“A powerful testimony to magic and loss. A marvel.”
--Marlon James
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