"A charming, beguiling story about the terrible beauty of families and the redemptive power of love . . . Auster's writing is packed with surprises." –USA Today
"A bighearted, life-affirming, tenderly comic yarn." –
The Washington Post "Probably the first authentic attempt to deal with the post–September 11 world . . . It is a multilayered tapestry, with whimsical chapter headings and Dickensian depth." –
San Francisco Chronicle "Auster has written a sublime soap opera about the ways in which people abandon and save one another. He captures a historical moment, our twisted America, and he offers a message of hope. Love will save us. We will save each other. Auster employs tough-guy talk and funny, believable stories of folly in his search for wisdom and goodness." –
The Boston Globe
