War Of The Encyclopaedists

A captivating coming-of-age novel that is, by turns, funny and sad and elegiac - a novel that leaves us with revealing snapshots of America, and telling portraits of a couple of millennials trying to grope their way toward adulthood

Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

One of the most revealing novels yet about the millennial generation... this might be their defining novel

Esquire

Rather brilliant. It's like Franzen crossed with David Abrams... shrewd, funny and heartfelt

Independent

As bizarre, hilarious and devastating as the past decade . . . Simultaneously a coming-of-age story, a war story, and a story of the disaffected millennial generation

Phil Klay, author of Redeployment

Pacy, funny, sometimes heartbreaking... this is a fantastic read

Vogue

[A] smart, wise and wise-assed first novel. Seattle hipsterville to Baghdad, Cambridge theory nerds and Army grunts, this book has sweep and heart and humor. It captures coming-of-age during foreign wars and domestic malaise, and it does so with electrifying insight

Mary Karr, author of 'The Liars' Club'

Unfolds rapidly, humorously, and convincingly from page one

Library Journal

Smart and entertaining . . . [a] likable, highly readable, double-bylined coming-of-age first novel

Kirkus

An epic for the 9/11 generation... Chronicles the churning uncertainties of new adults, when everything represents possibility or peril

Booklist

Publisher's description. Hilarious and heartbreaking, a coming-of-age tale for modern America. Mickey and Halifax are best friends: held together by a sense of humour, shared memories, world-class parties, but pushed apart by looming adulthood, the Iraq War and girls. After high school, thrust into new lives worlds apart, they must decide what friendship and happiness really mean.

Penguin