This book is harrowing, hurtling,
heartbreaking and -- more than anything --
devastatingly accurate. Darin
Strauss (a novelist whose talents
sometimes seem limitless to me) has
created characters whose complexities
and dark motivations -- though
they are always hidden from each
other, and even sometimes from
themselves -- are never hidden from
their author. This is a brilliant, sharp,
suspenseful novel, impossible to
turn your gaze from. --Elizabeth Gilbert,
author of Eat, Pray, Love
Darin Strauss has written a novel
that is -- suture by suture, idea for
idea -- peerlessly brilliant. Here is
a supreme, mature novelist at the
height of his powers. --Gary Shteyngart, author of
Absurdistan and The Russian
Debutante's Handbook
A prize-winning, front-cover-of-the-
Times-Book-Review type of story
that's sure to be one of the few
novels of this era to be remembered
in thirty years-and not just because
it's going to be made into a movie.
Destined to be the most important
popular novel since The Corrections.
--Kevin Baker, author of Paradise Alley
That rare thing: a blockbuster with
a can't-miss commercial hook-and
it's also a great story, a cross between
Bonfire of the Vanities and
The Lovely Bones.
--David Lipsky, author of
Absolutely American
Darin Strauss's latest is an eviscerating
portrayal of contemporary
American life, surgical and exact.
At turns funny and disturbing, unsparing
in its insights yet generous
with understanding, More Than It
Hurts You is a relentlessly rewarding
piece of art.
--Colson Whitehead,
author of Apex Hides the Hurt
and John Henry Days
From the Publisher
"[A] brilliant, sharp, suspenseful novel."
-Elizabeth Gilbert
"Wrenching and flawlessly involving."
-New York Daily News
"Chilling, insightful and bold."
-Chicago Tribune
"Riveting."
-Publishers Weekly
