“Eerie and moving...compelling...the story it tells orbits around questions of creativity, grief and the Trump era’s demolition of platitudes and ever-escalating implausibility and absurdism. Maksik fortunately sidesteps the polemical fable one worries he might be writing in favor of a much more compelling project...even as the colony’s shadowy visionary, Sebastian Light... takes on certain Trumpian qualities...Maksik never allows the novel to seem overly programmatic. It is finally an argument for the necessity of irony, risk and integrity in the production of art as in life.”
Read the full review in The New York Times Book Review.
