Improvement Audiobook

Quotes

• “Six narrators turn a mix of nationalities and genders into a masterful listening experience…The talented narrators switch between various points of view as the listener gets another piece of the puzzle…Each new voice holds the listener’s interest throughout.”

  — AudioFile

• “Improvement is so crisp and resonant a novel that it made me forget the chaos of life around me.”

  — Lauren Groff, New York Times bestselling author

• “This is a novel of richness and wisdom and huge pleasure…[A] perfectly balanced mix of celebration and wryness.”

  — New York Times

• “[Silver is] a master of the compression and dilation of time, what time and nothing else can reveal to people about themselves.”

  — Washington Post

• “A yarn about interconnectedness spanning countries, people, and decades…and how differently characters deal with the curve balls life throws at them.”

  — Chicago Review of Books

• “Explores big questions with subtlety, humor, and compassion. Improvement is an everyday masterpiece.”

  — Newsday

• “Silber’s extraordinary new novel…is kaleidoscopic as it spans decades and stretches from New York to Berlin and Turkey…She raises questions about fate and chance, power and redemption, and, finally, the universal need for connection.”

  — National Book Review

• “Her diverse cast of characters never feel anything but authentic, and her prose is both precise on the sentence level and masterly in structure.”

  — Vulture.com

• “There is something so refreshing and genuine about this book, coming partly from the bumpy weave of its unpredictable story and partly from its sharply turned yet refreshingly unmannered prose. A winner.”

  — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

• “The subtle ripple effects of individual choices and actions are eloquently portrayed through Silber’s penetrating eye in this elegant and thought-provoking novel.”

  — Library Journal

• “Silber’s decision to write events of great magnitude from everyday points of view lends realism and universality to her story.”

  — Booklist

• “Silber delivers a whirlwind narrative reminiscent of her compact story collections in novel form.”

  — Publishers Weekly

• “Silber masterfully pulls together the threads of lives in places as remote as rural Turkey and as common and close as New York City like a finely made Persian rug.”

  — American Booksellers Association

• “Explores love and ambition and the way it entangles, wounds, transforms vibrant characters…a magnificent work about the complexity of human connection, full of remarkable insight and compassion.”

  — Karen E. Bender, author of Refund