Tales of the Madman Underground

“Rarely will you read something so lovingly vulgar, so fiercely warmhearted, and so exuberantly expansive that even its longwindedness becomes part of its rogue charm. . . . The culmination comes off like a teenage One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Always ambitious, often caustic, and frequently moving.”—Booklist, starred review

“So easy and engaging, so sweet and funny, so astonishingly truthful that readers will rip through these 500-plus pages and want more.”—School Library Journal, starred review

“Darkly comic . . . as troubled, relevant, relatable and hilarious as J.D. Salinger.”—Los Angeles Times