The story of how Tom Robbins became Tom Robbins is a pretty good one, and in relating it, he's written his best book in many years. Tibetan Peach Pie should be sold in one of those marijuana vending machines now extant in Colorado. Like them, it provides an afternoon's affordable buzz.

“Robbins continues to embody Zen coolness and bohemian charm.” - Booklist (starred review)
“Robbins carries us along a magical wonder tour in this high-flying, Zen koan-like, and cinematic tour of some of the episodes in his journey through space and time. ” - Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“[Readers] will enjoy this peek into the intelligently goofy and always fertile mind of this inventive writer... a fitting cap to a sui generis career, equally satisfying in short installments or read straight through.” - Kirkus Reviews
“Tibetan Peach Pie is vintage Robbins. It’s pyrotechnic in language, labyrinthine in logic, daunting in voice, threaded with his wonderfully esoteric wit… Authentically charming… profound. ” - Washington Independent Review of Books
“Readers will enjoy immersing themselves in [Robbins’] adventuresome life, from his remarkably unsupervised childhood to his free and easy adulthood. Tibetan Peach Pie… is a welcome antidote to our current era of helicopter parenting and disciplined conformity and rules, rules, rules.” - Richmond Times-Dispatch
“Fans of Tom Robbins, the person, the novelist, the introspective jokester and the gifted storyteller, will love this book. It truly is a gem.” - Portland Book Review
“A perfect bookend to Tom Robbins’ oeuvre, an opportunity to finally catch a glimpse behind this magician’s curtain.” - About.com
“Haphazardly ricocheting-but without exception entertaining.” - Bookish.com
“Robbins writes beautifully… In works of pure imagination, like his novels, his style suits the material… A damned satisfying trip to the moon.” - Santa Fe Pasa Tiempo
“At his best, Robbins writes prose that flows like he’s having a blast putting it all down as fast as he can think it.” - Houston Chronicle
“He’s never lost that voice, and it’s the star of this memoir. If you’re a fan, you might have dreamed of getting to meet him, not just for a moment at a book signing but at some laid-back, intimate dinner party where you and he and a gaggle of supporting cast would eat perfect tomato sandwiches and sip Champagne under a starry sky while Robbins told story after crazy story, until the sun came up. You’ll have to get your own perfect tomatoes and bubbly, but Tibetan Peach Pie dishes up the main course.” - Tampa Bay Times
“He’s never lost that voice, and it’s the star of this memoir.” - Tampa Bay Times
“[Tibetan Peach Pie is] constantly buoyed by verbal prestidigitation that works on readers like the bubbles in champagne, teasing and urging them to engage their own imaginations in the game… At its best it’s heady stuff… infectious, giddy-making. Robbins is king of the sidewinder simile, the mixologist’s metaphor. No other popular writer of our time depends as he does on pure verbal dazzle, or delivers as reliably on the deal.” - Seattle Weekly
“Robbins is king of the sidewinder simile, the mixologist’s metaphor. No other popular writer of our time depends as he does on pure verbal dazzle, or delivers as reliably on the deal.” - Seattle Weekly
“Charmingly offbeat… unconventionally literary. [Robbins] excels at compositional oddity, brandishing the creative and the humorous… [Tibetan Peach Pie] is an amusement park of allusions and madcap stories.” - Daily Californian
“For the lover of words and wordplay, humor, and creative and high flying imagination, there is no contemporary writer any better.” - San Francisco Book Review
“Beautiful... Robbins has never met a pun, a blissfully crooked analogy, a magician’s bit of verbal trickery that he didn’t love… He knows words the way a pool hustler knows chalk.” - NPR Books (Online Review)
“As in his many novels, [Tibetan Peach Pie] is buoyed by a palpable sense of the fun Robbins is having with language, in all of its rhythmic and poetic possibilities.” - Biographile Biographile
“Wacky, wonder-filled… The fiction master of our times, Thomas Pynchon, once called Robbins a brain-dazzling ‘world-class storyteller.’ Now in his 80s, he still is, even in telling his own story.” - USA Today (Online Review)
“Hallucinatory and conversational… intertwined with many fun and interesting tales... This is what happens when you let Tom run.” - Slate
“If you’ve read any of his quirky best-sellers, such as Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, you’ll scarf down this account of Robbins’ Appalachian childhood, his life on the wild, wonderful West Coast in the 1960’s and his world travels.” - AARP Magazine
“Some small part of Tibetan Peach Pie is indeed written in the verbal equivalent of “a ruffled pink shirt” and “bow tie with colored sequins” but if I have to tell you how pleasurable a book can be when you just might happen to turn a page and come upon a description of William F. Buckley Jr. as the “emperor penguin of the American right,” then Tibetan Peach Pie is not for you. If I don’t have to tell you, you’ll find Robbins’ memoir that refuses to call itself a memoir one of the solid, if minor, pleasures of summer reading season’s onset.” - Buffalo News
“…appealing… The story of how Tom Robbins became Tom Robbins is a pretty good one, and in relating it, he’s written his best book in many years. “Tibetan Peach Pie” should be sold in one of those marijuana vending machines now extant in Colorado. Like them, it provides an afternoon’s affordable buzz.” - New York Times
“The story of how Tom Robbins became Tom Robbins is a pretty good one, and in relating it, he’s written his best book in many years.” - New York Times
“Tibetan Peach Pie, [Robbins] warns us, can’t be considered a ‘normal memoir,’ as its author hasn’t lived a ‘normal life…’ No one, however, comes to a Tom Robbins book for a bracing dose of normality. We come for the iconoclastic humor, the bizarre imaginative leaps, the constantly startling prose. Robbins has always been an elegant, if eccentric, stylist. His sentences are rhythmic, seductive and filled with images from some celestial left field that only he can access. Mostly, we come to experience the peculiar character of Robbins’s mind - a mind marked by an endless search for the ‘crazy wisdom’ that has animated his fiction and shaped his life... Tibetan Peach Pie is a late, welcome gift from a philosopher-novelist who continues to believe in the transformative qualities of ‘novelty, beauty, mischief and mirth’ - qualities apparent on every page of this lively, large-hearted book.” - Washington Post
“Tibetan Peach Pie is a late, welcome gift from a philosopher-novelist who continues to believe in the transformative qualities of ‘novelty, beauty, mischief and mirth’ - qualities apparent on every page of this lively, large-hearted book.” - Washington Post
“Tibetan Peach Pie is a gift to his fans, the story of a man who had the sense to follow where his imagination led… How lucky for his readers that we got to tag along for the ride.” - Seattle Times
“The author of such off-kilter bestsellers as Still Life with Woodpecker has written a rollicking reminiscence of his Appalachian upbringing, his spiral through the psychedelic ‘60s, and his unconventional path to literary stardom.” - O magazine
“Memoir or not, the form suits Robbins’s digressive style, philosophical musings, and self-deprecating humor. Each piece stands on its own, but when read side by side they develop into a powerful argument about magic and the necessity of imaginative, interior worlds.” - Library Journal (starred review)
“Perhaps the only aspect more impressive than Robbins’s ability to imbue a lifetime of interesting anecdotes with an additional layer of introspection is his trademark style [...]earthy and conversational yet simultaneously intellectual. Fans and newcomers alike will guffaw and marvel at this most extraordinary life - Shelf Awareness
“One of the great bawdy, boogie-woogieing American novelists of our time unspools the astonishing breadth of his own life. An uproarious, big-hearted shaggy-dog memoir… [Tibetan Peach Pie] bursts with enough joie de vivre to bewitch even the most present-shock-imprisoned 28-year-old and to snag the rest of us with Robbins’ far-out, feel-good sensibility and trademark helical, world-happy prose. … Robbins constructs scenes from his past like a series of snapshots with profound depths of field.” - Elle
“[Tibetan Peach Pie] bursts with enough joie de vivre to bewitch even the most present-shock-imprisoned 28-year-old and to snag the rest of us with Robbins’ far-out, feel-good sensibility and trademark helical, world-happy prose.” - Elle