The Plot against America Audiobook

Quotes

• “When we’re ten pages into the book, our own world starts to seem like a flimsy fantasy.”

  — Time

• “A remarkable act of historical imagination.”

  — People

• “It’s not a prophecy; it’s a nightmare, and it becomes more nightmarish—and also funnier and more bizarre—as is goes along.”

  — New Yorker

• “Provocative…An intimate glimpse of one family’s harrowing encounter with history.”

  — New York Times

• “Ambitious and chilling.”

  — USA Today

• “A terrific political novel…You turn the pages, astonished and frightened.”

  — New York Times Book Review

• “It depicts the United States slipping towards fascism and the demonization of minority citizens.”

  — Washington Post

• “Enraging and discomfiting, imaginative and utterly—terrifyingly—believable.”

  — San Francisco Chronicle

• “A novel that you must read—now…A stunning work.”

  — Christian Science Monitor

• “It’s startling how allegorical it is to our current political moment.”

  — NPR

• “A fabulous yarn.”

  — Los Angeles Times Book Review

• "The Plot Against America is not necessarily a comforting read but it is an immersive one that will take you to another America, at least for a few hours.”

  — BuzzFeed

• “The overall effect of the novel is staggering. Roth has constructed a brilliantly telling and disturbing historical prism by which to refract the American psyche as it pertains to war.”

  — Booklist (starred review)

• “A sumptuous interweaving of narrative, characterization, speculation, and argument…An almost unbelievably rich book.”

  — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

• “In this stunning novel, [Roth] creates a mesmerizing alternate world.”

  — Publishers Weekly

• “The author wonderfully balances politics and a boy’s view of a seemingly idyllic America shattered by forces he cannot truly understand.”

  — Library Journal