Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? Audiobook

Quotes

• "[A] story about someone who takes revenge against the world because he can’t fathom how he fits into it…This is a one-sitting read…Insightful.”

  — USA Today

• “Eggers has a knack for potent images of frustration…So soon after Elliot Rodger’s California massacre, Eggers has produced something timely. There is a book to be written about angry young white men turning against a society that isn’t giving them what they think they’re owed.”

  — Chicago Tribune

• “[It is] hard not to be affected by his charm and literary DIY…Working in the tradition of Manuel Puig’s Kiss of the Spiderwoman and Nicholson Baker’s Vox, the novel is without description or speaker attribution…Ambitious.”

  — Boston Globe

• “Politically and polemically engaged in the tradition of Dickens and Zola…Another novel located in a frightened, divided, deceitful, and possibly disintegrating America…Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? is a hostage drama of sorts [with]…many skilfully delayed revelations…Privately and publicly astute, confirming that the writer’s joke about genius in his debut title was not entirely misplaced.”

  — Guardian

• “Unmistakably the work of a singular talent…With each tightly controlled book, Eggers’ fiction becomes more prescient, moving and unsettling…Eggers again finds the perfect form for his subject matter…Eggers examines the cataclysms that occur when our lives veer from the narratives that we construct for them. He’s interested in the ‘throwaway people’ who don’t meet society’s expectations…Even if all generations are lost generations, we need engaged, incendiary novels which ask: ‘What now?’”

  — Independent [UK]

• “[A] fleet and forceful story by one of our finest fiction writers…The author makes his points in stark exchanges, with little exposition, and the book’s spare style propels the reader to the end. Thomas isn’t a likeable character, but he’s an oddly sympathetic one—or, at least, one who is easy to recognize.” 

  — San Jose Mercury News

• “Eggers writes so well you would read a computer manual if it was by him, but beneath his beguiling style is a base note of genuine concern about those who find themselves out of kilter with society…Eggers shows the trip wire that lies between acknowledging the world is unfair and finding targets on whom to pin the blame when—perhaps the cruellest truth of all—the finger can rarely be pointed in any meaningful direction.”

  — Herald (Scotland)

• “A quick read, part psychological thriller, part political screed.”

  — Library Journal

• “[Eggers’] new novel is similarly message-laden but, since it’s brief and told exclusively in dialogue, doesn’t wear out its welcome.”

  — Kirkus Review

• “The book is presented almost like a play, and the result is an engaging, raw blunt instrument that only happens to resemble a work of literature. MacLeod Andrews does the bulk of the narration, complemented by a cadre of terrific voices that inhabit the characters they portray. There’s enough salty language to cover a ton of peanuts, but little of it is gratuitous, given the story’s conceit and the author’s writing, which tends to be on the edgy side.”

  — AudioFile