Wright's fifth novel, a dark, allegorical parable about the links between identity, the past and the need to write, reads like a cross between Paul Auster's The Music of Chance and an episode of the '50s TV series The Millionaire. . . . This novel
told mostly in the unusual second-person singular
is about writing as a way to reconcile our past ... Read morewith who and what we become; it's Wright's brief but stirring conclusion on this subject that makes the book so special.
Publishers Weekly This literary and existential mystery-within-a-novel may remind readers of the fiction of Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, and other authors who chart the modern American search for identity. . . . An intellectual wordsmith's whodunit.
Kirkus Reviews An intellectual wordsmith's whodunit.
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