"This is the place to come out and say it: Ali Smith has a beautiful mind. I found this book to be unbearably moving in its playful, strange, soulful assessment of what it means to be alive at a somber time. She is speaking about sand, but she might be talking about Western civilization when she praises the “array of colors of even the pulverized world." —The New York Times

“Smith, in reckoning with the catastrophe and wreckage of a fraught historical moment, picks through it just as precisely to reveal the beauty and the humanity buried deep below the surface.” —The Atlantic

“AUTUMN is clever and invigorating. The promise of three more books to come is something to be savored.” —The Washington Times

“AUTUMN shimmers with wit, melancholy, grief, joy, wisdom, small acts of love and, always, wonder at the seasons.” —The Boston Globe

“AUTUMN works convincingly as an aesthetic marker of political darkness and its repudiation.” 
—Chicago Review of Books