Ironic, surreal, sometimes stunning and always chaotic . . . Gogolesque in its sardonic humor. (
The New York Times)
The Dream Life of Sukhanov will tower over the majority of what publishers put out this year. (
New York)
Steeped in the tradition of Gogol, Bulgakov, and Nabokov, Grushin is clearly a writer of large and original talent. (James Lasdun)
Grushin has imagined both Sukhanov's carefully managed life and his richly troubling personal history with a detailed intensity that fruitfully echoes Solzhenitsyn's best books, Tolstoy's 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich' and John O'Hara's
Appointment in Samarra. (
Kirkus Reviews, starred review)
The next big thing in American literary fiction . . . so accomplished are her skills–so hauntingly assured–that more than one US critic has greeted her as the next great American novelist. (
Financial Times)
Harks back to the great Russian masters [and] breathes new life into American literary fiction. (Jonathan Yardley,
The Washington Post Book World)
