“What sustains the entire novel is Seethaler’s gift for convincing dialogue. His characters talk as if he’s somewhere close at hand, listening intently and carefully transcribing what they say...
In a world of oversized action heroes, amped-up plots and raging social media, Robert Seethaler’s highly-regarded novels (including 2017’s A Whole Life, which was a finalist for the Booker Prize) are warm retreats into truer personal interconnections...
A slender novel about the everyday lives of the kinds of simple people who are usually overlooked, scorned or forgotten, and not just in fiction... Robert Seethaler’s story is warm, sympathetic and real. He makes these people’s lives matter.”
