“The funniest novel I have read, possibly ever. Brilliant, totally original, and worthy of its title. I promise you will laugh constantly and to the point of stomach damage.” —Augusten Burroughs, bestselling author of Running with Scissors and Dry

“Audaciously titled, cleverly constructed, Winner of the National Book Award is an elegy wrapped inside a satire, a sorrowful meditation on the mysteries of sibling love and rivalry concealed within a bitterly funny chronicle of literary buffoonery. Jincy Willett is a fearless writer, capable of startling the reader into rueful laughter at every turn.” —Tom Perrotta, bestselling author of Little Children

“Riotous [and] hugely funny . . .Willett's satirical abilities remain deliciously undimmed…. Amid the antic, hilarious, gender-bending battle of the sexes that Ms. Willett whips up in this book, either one may qualify as a reason to kill. Either that, or to die laughing.” —The New York Times

“Poignant and funny, mean and tender, Willett's novel is exuberantly original.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“The author mows down worlds of artistic and psychological twaddle with killer sprays of language. Willett is effortlessly, furiously funny. . . . A.” —Entertainment Weekly

“How rarely the knacks for wisdom and for cracking wise come in one single, satisfying package. So: hurrah for Jincy Willett, and for her funny, charming, humane, and altogether well-wrought piece of fiction.” —Kurt Andersen, author of Heydey

“As audacious as its title, weird and universal and touching and hilarious all at once.” —Anna Quindlen, bestselling author of Rise and Shine