"Like Denis Johnson in 'Jesus' Son, ' Kushner is on the lookout for bent moments of comic grace...
The Mars Room is a major novel."
–Dwight Garner, The New York Times "Kushner uses the novel as a place to be flamboyant and funny, and to tell propulsive stories, but mainly as a capacious arena for thinking."
–The New Yorker "[Rachel Kushner is] one of the most gifted novelists of her generation–on the same tier as Jennifer Egan and the two Jonathans, Franzen and Lethem...[
The Mars Room is] a page turner... blackly comic...It's one of those books that enrage you even as they break your heart."
–Charles McGrath, The New York Times Book Review (Cover Review) "
The Mars Room affirms Rachel Kushner as one of our best novelists...her stories slink in the margins, but they have the feel of something iconic."
–Leah Greenblatt, Entertainment Weekly