Praise for Panic in a Suitcase
“Sentence for sentence, this is the wittiest, most intelligent book by a first-time author I’ve read in a long time.” —Aleksandar Hemon, The Week
“Brilliant and often funny … the kind of fiction that is richer than real life.” —The New York Times
“This is the great immigrant story drained of its inspirational hype. . . . One wonders if Akhtiorskaya hasn’t descended from some unacknowledged Russian branch of Kingsley Amis’s family. . . . Genius.” —The Washington Post
