“Kaufman has written a witty and utterly original take on the Don Quixote story—charming and unexpected.” —Miranda Heller, author of NYT bestseller The Paper Palace

“Mad times call for mad literature. Seth Kaufman’s zany and hilarious re-interpretation of the Don Quixote legend, via a delusional, middle-aged, romance novel junkie on the Upper West Side, lives up to the challenge. Also, it has a happy ending! Insofar as the novel otherwise defies description, I strongly recommend you read it yourself.” —Lucinda Rosenfeld, author of Class

“The Seductive Lady Vanessa is tailor-made for all book addicts seeking fun, adventure, and laughter. But romance fans will find themselves particularly smitten as Lady Vee and her Brooklyn-born lady-in-waiting caper through modern Manhattan(shire) looking for love in all the wrong places. Like its forerunners Don Quixote and Pride and Prejudice, the book smuggles in deep human issues amid the antics: addiction in sneaky modern forms, loneliness amid vast crowds, and acceptance of self as a bridge to freedom. This is a wonderful, sharp, and laugh-out-loud work that takes a kind-eyed look at the risks, struggles, and rewards of wanting a little love now.” —Robin McLean, author of Pity the Beast

“In The Seductive Lady of Manhattanshire, Seth Kaufman not only brings Don Quixote’s obsession with chivalric romances into the 21st century through the hilarious Manhattanite Lady Vee’s mad passion for romance novels, but he also updates Cervantes’s narrator Cide Hamete Benengeli through the suspenseful story of the Egyptian Aisha Benengeli, this novel’s ‘author.’ A fit successor to the many works of wit and satire that have followed the path of Don Quixote de la Mancha, Kaufman’s novel will satisfy readers seeking both Cervantes’s metafictional play and ironic jabs at self-fashioning as well as Jane Austen’s gentle satire of the business of romance.” —Rachel Schmidt, author of Forms of Modernity: Don Quixote and Modern Theories of the Novel