“An audacious and enchanting novel, As If explores life’s alternatives—fantasies and nightmares, encounters dreaded and desired, opportunities lost and gained—in an ingenious setting. We enter its world of doubles and mirror images with a thrill and leave with a deeper understanding of our own naked hearts.” —Yiyun Li, author of Things in Nature Merely Grow

“As If holds a multiplying and expanding universe, whose characters are both wonderfully strange and wickedly human. At once twisty and delicious, beautiful and imaginative, this is a book that will surprise you in the best way possible.” —Kristen Arnett, author of Stop Me If You've Heard This One

“Every page is exhilarating.” —Deborah Levy, author of August Blue and The Position of Spoons

“A brilliant, strange and tender exploration of what it is to fail, keep failing, and fail better.” —Sarah Bernstein, author of Study for Obedience

“As If is an entirely new species of fiction: a spellbindingly clever and profound romp; an urgent exploration of contemporary masculinity in love with, and at war, with itself; a story of desire, art, and redemption. Isabel Waidner is the heir to many legends—Kafka, Bosch, Monty Python, Jonathan Swift—and their new novel summons gorgeous, canny, comedic tulips from the austerity-hammered present. A total stunner.” —Jordy Rosenberg, author of Confessions of the Fox