"Imaginative. . .compelling storytelling. . .we can’t help reading on." --The New York Times Book Review
“LaFarge is a confident, tireless trickster and yarn spinner...a magician on the scale of Prospero." --San Francisco Chronicle
“LaFarge is a master storyteller with cleverness and inventiveness to spare....[An] ambitious and playful novel...full of artful prose, wit, and provocative ideas." --The Philadelphia Inquirer
"With his dazzling gift for bringing irretrievable cities to life, LaFarge conjures sinuous, melancholic otherworlds that feel wholly tangible." --The Village Voice
"Haussman designed cities; LaFarge designs worlds—splendid, elegant edifices built on the rubble of our dreams and history." --Colson Whitehead, author of John Henry Days
