An Available Man

“Wonderful new novel . . . often hilarious and always compassionate.”—The New York Times Book Review
“Charming . . . affecting . . . emotionally layered.”—NPR’s Fresh Air
“Tender, witty . . . smart and poignant, An Available Man explores some universal truths—that the past is never past, life is for the living, and dating is really, really hard.”—O, the Oprah Magazine
“An Available Man is not just a cautionary tale of geriatric loneliness and sex. It’s a meditation—and then, a breathtaking roller-coaster ride, and then, a meditation again—on what we lose when we allow loss and longing to make us unavailable to ourselves.”—The Boston Globe
“[F]unny, wise and touching.”—The Washington Post

“[Hilma Wolitzer] succeeds, precisely because the writer understands that it’s not a childish insistence on finding everything delightful but the full complexity of experience that gives a romance, late-life or otherwise, its real beauty.”—Philadelphia Enquirer
“Wolitzer is, by turns, funny, shocking, poignant and wise.”—The Minneapolis Star-Tribune
“Heartbreaking, maddening, comical, and poignant . . . This sweet story of a man’s diving back into the dating pool at an older age will especially appeal to readers in that demographic.”—Library Journal
“I absolutely loved An Available Man . . . This is a book to savor page by page, filled with astute detail, both comic and mournful, about what it’s like to be middle-aged and lonely yet not give up on the search for love.”—Julia Glass, author of The Widower’s Tale and the National Book Award-winning Three Junes

“A warm, keenly incisive view of life’s vicissitudes by a writer too seldom heard from.”—Booklist
“Comic, tender, and delicious.”—Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author of Big Stone Gap and Very Valentine

“With its cast of exuberantly alive characters and a wise and witty plot, this book is love at first sight.”—Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of Pictures of You

“Hilma Wolitzer is a master of the domestic world, and her writing is graceful, stylish, intelligent and so, so funny! This is a lovely novel, an elegant bouquet of family life, made up of tenderness and confusion, grief and solace, uncertainty and commitment, and the unexpectedness of love.”—Roxana Robinson, author of Cost
“Families are Wolitzer’s turf, and she’s an observant and often humorous chronicler of domesticity and the stuff that comes with it: illness, loss, boredom, crankiness, and, on good days, love.”—Publishers Weekly