More Than It Hurts You - Rilegato

“This book is harrowing, hurtling, heartbreaking and—more than anything— devastatingly accurate. Darin Strauss (a novelist whose talents sometimes seem limitless to me) has created characters whose complexities and dark motivations—though they are always hidden from each other, and even sometimes from themselves—are never hidden from their author. T his is a brilliant, sharp, suspenseful novel, impossible to turn your gaze from.”
—Elizabeth Gilbert , author of Eat, Pray, Love

“Darin Strauss has written a novel that is—suture by suture, idea for idea—peerlessly brilliant. Here is a supreme, mature novelist at the height of his powers.”
—Gary Shteyngart , author of Absurdistan and TheRussian Debutante’s Handbook

“A prize-winning, front-cover-of-the- Times-Book-Review type of story that’s sure to be one of the few novels of this era to be remembered in thirty years—and not just because it’s going to be made into a movie. Destined to be the most important popular novel since The Corrections.”
—Kevin Baker , author of Paradise Alley

“That rare thing: a blockbuster with a can’t-miss commercial hook—and it’s also a great story, a cross between

Bonfire of the Vanities and The Lovely Bones.”
—David Lipsky, author of Absolutely American

“Darin Strauss’s latest is an eviscerating portrayal of contemporary American life, surgical and exact. At turns funny and disturbing, unsparing in its insights yet generous with understanding, More Than It Hurts You is a relentlessly rewarding piece of art.”
—Colson Whitehead, author of Apex Hides the Hurt and John Henry Days

Darin Strauss is the author of the international bestseller Chang and Eng and the New York Times Notable Book The Real McCoy. Also a screenwriter, he is currently adapting Chang and Eng with Gary Oldman. The recipient of a 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction writing, he teaches writing at New York University.