PositiveEntertainment Weekly... this isn’t one of those comedian-penned essay collections where the yuks jump out at sitcom speeds. Yet there’s still plenty of humor; Noah proves to be a gifted storyteller, able to deftly lace his poignant tales with amusing irony.
Jonathan Safran Foer
MixedEntertainment Weekly...[Foer] burrows deep into their domestic anguish and comes back out with captivating prose, refreshingly free of the gimmicky bells and whistles of his earlier novels. Even if you find Foer’s cloyingly clever characters and overuse of metaphors to be insufferable (and many do), the marital autopsy might keep you around ... Foer goes on to spend countless exhausting pages wrestling with big-picture questions about family and home and belonging, and then goes on to spend more countless exhausting pages doing it some more.
