'It broke my heart, this book. Time after time. It made me laugh just as often. I loved it on the first page as powerfully as I did on the last, and I think I was right, right from the start. Because Nathan Hill? He's gonna be famous. This is just the start.' US National Public Radio'A mother-son psychodrama with ghosts and politics, but also a tragicomedy about anger and sanctimony in America. Nathan Hill is a maestro of being terrific.

' John Irving'Hill has so much talent to burn that he can pull off just about any style, imagine himself into any person and convincingly portray any place or time. The Nix is hugely entertaining and unfailingly smart, and the author seems incapable of writing a pedestrian sentence or spinning a boring story.' New York Times Book Review 'First-rate . This is a book to get one excited . about Hill and his future as a novelist.' San Francisco Chronicle 'We're in the presence of a major new comic novelist . What a brilliant, endearing writer Hill is . Readers will .

be dazzled.' Washington Post 'Nathan Hill is compared to John Irving. Irving compares him to Dickens . Hill . seems poised to break out as a major literary talent.' New York Times 'A great sprawling feast of a first novel . both darkly satirical and uproariously funny . Hill writes with an astonishingly sure hand for a young author .

Let's just call him the real thing.' Newsday 'Dazzling . rich and multi-layered . the debut of an important new writer.' USA Today 'So spot-on it's frightening . Hilarious, observant, unputdownable . That it's so entertaining, so full of energy, and packed with social and political observations that adroitly destabilize our comfortable assumptions about modern life is a triumph.' Huffington Post.