PositiveToronto Star (CAN)The novellas are...subtly tied...and the writing as beautifully expressive, even in its most darkly humoured moments ... Whitehead is not fooling around ... Historically resonant.
Tom Rachman
RaveToronto Star (CAN)Rich and compulsively readable ... It’s all very, very funny too, albeit in an increasingly bleak way ... Smart, thoughtful and beautifully written, studded with aphorisms as pithy as French philosopher Francois de la Rochefoucauld’s...The Imposters is a spectacularly virtuoso achievement and Rachman’s finest novel.
Priya Guns
MixedToronto Star (CAN)Propulsive ... Damani’s bleakly amusing commentary on the worst parts of her life...Your Driver is almost as much manifesto as novel. It’s a dead serious attack on economic, racial and gender injustice ... It all adds up to a remarkable piece of writing. Your Driver is Waiting is jaggedly uneven. Mostly flat characterization and long swathes of didactic righteousness mark one side. On the other, though, there’s a fast-paced narrative with bite and, above all, Damani — smart, funny, brave and feral — a character not soon forgotten.
Salman Rushdie
RaveThe Toronto Star (CAN)Rushdie’s 15th novel is a compulsively readable take on the plain fact that human life has a tragic arc — consider how it ends for all of us — and a richly comedic texture along the way ... Pampa and Rushdie both spin magic worlds out of words; she is blinded before her death and Rushdie did lose an eye in the attack. An elegy on a writer’s art and purpose, Victory City is a great victory for Rushdie.
