The Nix

'A mother-son psychodrama with ghosts and politics, but also a tragicomedy about anger and sanctimony in America. . . . Nathan Hill is a maestro, a maestro of being terrific.' - John Irving

‘So spot-on it’s frightening… Hilarious, observant, unputdownable… That it’s so entertaining, so full of energy, and packed with social and political observations that adroitly destabilize our comfortable assumptions about modern life is a triumph’ Huffington Post

'The Nix Is the Love Child of Thomas Pynchon and David Foster Wallace… Hill has so much talent to burn that he can pull of just about any style, imagine himself into any person and convincingly portray any place or time. The Nix is hugely entertaining and unfailingly smart, and the author seems incapable of writing a pedestrian sentence or spinning a boring story.' New York Times

'Nathan Hill’s sad, funny, endlessly inventive debut… Brainy…but so immediately engaging, too... Hill weaves it all into the wild tragicomic tangle of his imagination.' Entertainment Weekly

'We’re in the presence of a major new comic novelist... What a brilliant, endearing writer Hill is... Readers will…be dazzled.' Washington Post

'Dazzling... rich and multilayered... the debut of an important new writer' USA Today

'A high-risk, high-reward playfulness with structure and tone: comic set-pieces, digressions into myth, and formal larks that call to mind Jennifer Egan’s A Visit From the Goon Squad.' New York Magazine