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“Woke Up Lonely is a fun-house hall of mirrors whose dark (and hilarious) distortions reveal some almost unbearable truths about what it means to be lonely in America today.”
— Karen Russell, New York Times bestselling author of Swamplandia!
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“[A] fun farce.”
— Cosmopolitan
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“Maazel’s insights are as sound as her imagination
is wild.”
— Oprah.com
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“The talented Maazel has plenty of imagination.”
— USA Today
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“Brilliantly imagine[d].”
— Vanity Fair
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“It’s as if a Paul Thomas Anderson movie (The Master, There Will Be Blood) married a David Foster Wallace novel and had a
baby. Which is to say, this story is weird, thrilling, and inimitable.”
— Marie Claire
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“Maazel’s new novel sounds like an AM radio dial
spinning between the spooky midnight frequency of ‘V.’ and the bizarro
breakfast show humor of ‘White Noise’…Intricately imagined and timely…Maazel is
an entertaining writer with a dry, droll sense of humor…She’s insightful about
how and why we build up instead of tear down the walls between us.”
— New York Times Book Review
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“Woke Up
Lonely is by turns hilarious and heartbreaking, filled with swerves and
contradictions…Poignant and unpredictable.”
— NPR
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“Fizzy and intoxicating.”
— Kansas City Star
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“Sweeping, achingly honest…Woke Up Lonely is both a mirror and magic looking glass, reflecting
who we are and who we have the potential to become.”
— Los Angeles Review of Books
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“Among the many sterling novels coming out this
April…Woke Up Lonely [has] stood out.”
— Salon
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“Maazel shines…When she brings forward the doubts and faults
of her characters, she shows these to be no less than our own, and then shows
us, too, that their moments of triumph—however minor and fleeting, and no
matter the obstacles that still stand in the way—can also be ours.”
— Publishers Weekly
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“In this rollicking ride of a novel, Maazel
explores a world of family, fame, and forgiveness…Maazel manages to strike a number of tones here—from poignant to paranoid—and she’s successful at every level.”
— Kirkus Reviews
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“A great novel. Great, major, important—say it however you like. This is a book you need.”
— Darin Strauss, award-winning author of Half a Life
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“Woke Up Lonely is the novel equivalent of a sonic boom—it builds, it explodes, it leaves your ears, mind, and soul ringing for days.”
— Heidi Julavits, author of The Vanishers
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“Fiona Maazel’s imagination is so wild…that you feel like you’ve woken up into one of those rare novels as real as life. Hooray for such a talent!”
— Rivka Galchen, author of Atmospheric Disturbances
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“No one does loneliness, self-abasement, and dread like Fiona Maazel…[She] illuminates with as much sadness and comic brio the grotesqueness of the extent to which we fall short of who we imagine ourselves to be.”
— Jim Shepard, author of You Think That’s Bad