Heather, the Totality Audiobook

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• “A tour de force of control, tone, and razor-slash insight…I could not put it down.”

  — Michael Chabon, New York Times bestselling author

• “A lacerating novella.”

  — O, The Oprah Magazine

• “An exciting debut novel with a fast-paced plot and plenty of suspense.”

  — Vogue

• Weiner deftly exposes the weirdness of mundane life changes" and "chillingly reminds us of how unstable the ground is that we take for granted beneath our feet.

  — Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air

• creepy, unsettling...and queasily seductive

  — USA Today

• Beyond its chilling portrait of America's social and economic divide, the novel raises a number of thorny questions... Weiner writes with maximum economy

  — Associated Press

• You'll devour it in a single, heart-racing sitting.

  — People

• slim but it packs a substantial punch

  — Seattle Review of Books

• Brief but with a big punch...Weiner paints a detailed, achingly insightful picture.

  — Elle

• The Matthew Weiner of Mad Men makes himself known in Heather via sharp and complex character insights...the novel transcends the status of a mere sleek, domestic thriller, and contributes meaningfully, unexpectedly, to resistance.

  — The Millions

• A sharp, slim page-turner, though much simmers underneath the surface of Weiner's deft prose.

  — BookPage

• Weiner's award-winning writing and producing of such renowned television shows as The Sopranos and Mad Men is neatly evident in his quietly thrilling debut novel. Written in descriptive and illuminating scene-like snippets-though nearly free of dialogue-this one-sitting read concerns the eerily shared delusions of a privileged Manhattan family and a man who stalks the periphery of their lives...The sense of doom is sharply rendered, characters are well developed, and their motivations are finely wrought. Readers will hope for more book-form fiction from Weiner.

  — Booklist

• A sharp, character-driven debut novel that examines class and parenting with equal power,

  — B&N Reads

• Weiner has created a very contemporary and creepy little novel about a teenaged girl and a fervent admirer. Rife with observations about Manhattan's elite, Heather is both unsettling and satisfying.

  — Literary Hub

• viscerally real and totally chilling, this is a fantastic book.

  — Bookreporter

• A page-turning thriller...we highly recommend reading it in one sitting so you can soak it all in.

  — Popsugar

• Fans of Mad Men will find familiar themes lurking in the show creator's debut novel.

  — Harper's Bazaar

• Heather, The Totality is a tour de force of control, tone and razor-slash insight. In its clear-eyed anatomist's gaze and its remarkable combination of empathy and pitilessness I hear echoes of Flaubert and Richard Yates, with a deeply twisted twist of Muriel Spark at her darkest. I could not put it down.

  — Michael Chabon, author of Moonglow

• Short and rapier-sharp, Matthew Weiner's HEATHER, THE TOTALITY compels and unnerves in equal measure. Like the great Patricia Highsmith, Weiner renders the disturbing not just plausible but exquisitely, agonizingly inevitable. A tour de force.

  — Claire Messud, author of The Burning Girl

• This short novel of upper-crust anomie and class-divide obsession is a scorcher! It's the classic noir construction: the short walk off the long ledge and the plummet to an indifferent Hell. Matthew Weiner demonically delivers the goods! Read this book in one gasping breath.

  — James Ellroy, author of L.A. Confidential and Perfidia

• slender but searingly intense".—New York Journal of Book

• An exciting debut novel with a fast-paced plot and plenty of suspense

  — Vogue

• sure to draw in fans of his character-driven work...Leave it to Weiner to derail a picture-perfect family.

  — W Magazine

• A lacerating novella.

  — O, The Oprah Magazine

• Mad Men creator Weiner crafts a finely honed tale that highlights class conflict." —Publisher's Weekly

• A page-turning thriller.

  — Pop Sugar

• I cringed and shuddered my way through this short, daring novel to its terrible inevitable end. Each neat, measured paragraph carpaccios its characters to get to the book's heart - one of Boschian self-cannibalising isolation. A stunning novel. Heather, The Totality blew me away."—Nick Cave

• A miraculous and fearless novel, Heather is unprecedented. As well as being smart, sharp and readable, it proves there are still fresh and exciting ways to write fiction.

  — MJ Hyland, author of Carry Me Down

• Chilling and poised, I loved it

  — Maggie O'Farrell, author of This Must Be the Place