Don't Let My Baby Do Rodeo - Brossura

'Empathetically narrated... begins with the unexpected and ends with the enigmatic' -- Sunday Telegraph

'A rewarding read: sensitive, wise and truthful' -- Big Issue

'Fishman is in cool and nuanced control of his material' -- Herald

'When Max finally learns the truth of his origins, his shock and confusion are so heart-rending to read' -- Financial Times

'Fishman fills the book with a cast of colourful minor characters... Many will find this story of an unhappy family trying to pull itself together moving, at times funny, a pleasure to read' -- Jewish Chronicle

'This is an extraordinary book, worthy of joining the pantheon of American literature' -- Bookoxygen

'Fishman's writing is impossible to fault, especially in its descriptive sections. He writes with precision about the emotional currents between fighting people; he writes sex well; he writes perfectly about the landscape of the American West' -- Elle Thinks

'He is, simply, a joy to read' -- New York Times Book Review

'[Fishman's] second novel is a fresh, unpredictable departure from his first. Max may or may not do rodeo, but from now on expect Boris Fishman to do anything' -- San Francisco Chronicle

'An eloquent and uncynical tale of how far people must travel to find out what they truly want and who they truly are' -- Chicago Tribune

'Touching... a sensitive and surprisingly adventurous exploration of one woman's wonder and suffering' -- Publishers Weekly

'Fishman smartly observers that the assimilation novel and road-trip novel make good partners. Both, after all, are about finding freedom. A comic novel about parenting infused with emotional intelligence' -- Kirkus

'With Fishman, we are in the hands of a genuine miniaturist, a cultivator of particulars, a writer who knows that familial conflict is in the realm of intense feeling packaged in tiny gestures' --O, the Oprah Magazine

'A formidable talent, a fabulous young writer with a steely wit and razor-sharp eye... Don't Let My Baby Do Rodeo is a brilliant and exhilarating read' -- Jewish Quarterly

'Engaging and tender novel... [that] explores universal questions of relationships, belonging, inheritance and the mystery of just who we are' --The Lady

Boris Fishman was born in Minsk, Belarus, and immigrated to the United States in 1988 at nine. His journalism, essays, and criticism have appeared in the New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The London Review of Books, the Guardian, and many other publications. His first novel, A Replacement Life, won the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award and the American Library Association's Sophie Brody Medal. He lives in New York.