Infinite Home Audiobook

Quotes

• “If The Island of Misfit Toys were recast as a sleepy Brooklyn apartment building, it might look a bit like Alcott’s Infinite Home, where a collection of vividly drawn characters seem to breathe right out of the pages.”

  — Entertainment Weekly

• “Wise, fresh…The joy of reading comes from how these seemingly insular people fall in love and help each other, melding lonely lives into an improvised family. Along the way, expect to find insights that make you stop, go back, and read again…You don’t know what’s coming in the last third of this book, and you will be astounded.”

  — O, The Oprah Magazine

• “Don’t expect this novel to deliver trite messages about the redemptive power of makeshift families. Yet these damaged characters, in spite of themselves, provide one another with unexpected offerings of consolation and love.”

  — New York Times

• “Prepare to be moved, because this one will reach deep inside of you.”

  — Bustle magazine

• “Alcott calls into question what ‘home’really means—is it a physical space populated by the belongings you acquire or a state of mind achieved when you’re surrounded with those you feel most at ease with? In Infinite Home, she posits that it’s somehow both.”

  — Huffington Post

• “At turns despondent and darkly funny, Alcott has woven a uniquely beautiful story which challenges the way we view the concept of home.”

  — Brooklyn Magazine

• “In her quietly wonderful second book, Alcott displays a deft hand with every one of her odd and startlingly real characters…The voices in this book speak volumes. A luminous second novel from a first-class storyteller.”

  — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

• “A delectably subtle yet sublimely fierce study of many forms of bravery and loyalty.”

  — Booklist

• “This quirky little tale is sad, yet funny and ultimately redemptive. Christa Lewis expertly captures the voices of the characters.”

  — Library Journal

• “Vibrant, inventive, expansive. Kathleen Alcott has peered through the walls of an everyday apartment building and transformed the private lives of its tenants into pure poetry. Infinite Home is as much a story of those neighbors we may only know in passing, as it is a commentary on the beauty and misfortune of our modern age.”

  — Said Sayrafiezadeh, author of Brief Encounters with the Enemy

• “Kathleen Alcott is part sculptor and part fire-breather—not only are these characters intricately carved but they stand up, walk right off the page, and beckon us into a story that is both vivid and welcoming.”

  — Ramona Ausubel, author of No One is Here Except All of Us

• “Starting with the first page of Infinite Home, you will feel it: something different, something brave, and something fundamentally amazing about Kathleen Alcott’s power over the English language. Every yearning character in this breakout novel is flesh and blood. Alcott’s roving heart, and power as a storyteller, may very well be limitless.”

  — Patrick Somerville, author of This Bright River