RaveThe New York Times Book Review\"... Virgil Wander... is one of the most engaging protagonists I’ve encountered in years ... Reading the novel is like walking into your beloved uncle’s bachelor pad: Every page is packed with curios and brimming with delightful nostalgia. But the nostalgia is well modulated ... Enger’s first novel in 10 years marks him as a foremost stylist. His prose is rhapsodic, kaleidoscopic and — I’ll say it — enviable. Even more enviable is the rare feat of writing a comedic literary novel that is also a page-turner ... Virgil Wander is a lush crowd-pleaser about meaning and second chances and magic.\
