“…a hilarious perversion of the rom-com … [Zink] has affectionate fun tweaking the pieties of her cast of businessmen, cultists and activists … beyond the satirical flourishes, the novel’s real agenda is to be amusing. Ms. Zink’s world is bawdy and absurd but essentially harmless. After marching her characters through a succession of ridiculous mishaps, she rewards them all with happy endings. It’s freeing to read a novel that’s both so witty and so inconsequential. Nicotine is light reading in the best sense. Think Wodehouse for millennials.”
–Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal, September 3, 2016
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