Mislaid: A Novel - Rilegato

“There’s nothing derivative about Nell Zink’s hip, hilarious and unexpectedly moving novel Mislaid... Zink has a genius for making the bizarre seem natural... makes for one of the most satisfying happy endings in recent fiction.” (Wall Street Journal)

“The novel’s charm and intelligence run deep. It’s a provocative masquerade with heart, not just an exercise in role reversals, reminding us that the gaps and cracks between our insides and our outsides are the spaces where our spirits live.” (New York Times Book Review)

“A writer of extraordinary talent and range. Her work insistently raises the possibility that the world is larger and stranger than the world you think you know. You might not want to believe this, but her sentences and stories are so strong and convincing that you’ll have no choice.” (Jonathan Franzen)

“Zink’s capacity for inventions is immense... [Mislaid] zips along with a giddy, lunatic momentum. It’s perverse wackiness is irresistible; unlike just about everything engineered to make you laugh out loud, Zink’s novel actually does, over and over again... She knows how to let her freak flag fly.” (Bookforum)

“Zink’s energy pulses in narration. [She] is original, unsentimental, erudite, and something of a naturalist. Her vocabulary is tremendous [and] her sentences are penetrating and agile.” (Harper's Magazine)

“[Zink] further proves her narrative chops as she spins a darkly satirical story ... Zink’s frankness on topics like gender, racial, socioeconomic, and sexual identity politics is refreshing and bold, but it is her strong writing and lucid sentences which truly reel readers in-and keep them there.” (L Magazine)

The bracing disconnect between sly, low-affect prose and Gothic strangeness recalls Flannery O’Connor and Jean Stafford--mid-century women you could imagine crossing paths with Peggy and shuddering.” (Vulture)

“[Zink] makes her big publishing debut with with this unconventional but ultimately brilliant novel that takes family, race, and the how decisions you make could resonate for years to come.” (Men’s Journal)

“A startlingly original novel about the dissolution of an eccentric American family.” (Harper's Bazaar)

“Nell Zink’s The Wallcreeper was the most impressive debut of 2014...her second novel, the hilarious and genius Mislaid, which restores a kind of Whitmania to American fiction, by which I mean that it convincingly covers race, class, gender, and sexuality in the briefest of spaces with the sharpest of minds..” (Flavorwire)