“Our byword for honesty may be built on a lie, and in Strauss’s capable hands, thereby hangs quite a tale…McCoy himself is the novel’s greatest accomplishment: a made-up figure, a fiction and, for all that, completely real.” —The New York Times Book Review
“Darin Strauss is one of America’s handful of young, great novelists…If his debut was a carnival, this is a World’s Fair. It’s that ambitious, that fun.” —The Austin Chronicle
