Praise for The Interestings
“The Interestings is warm, all-American, and acutely perceptive about the feelings and motivations of its characters, male and female, young and old, gay and straight; but it’s also stealthily, unassumingly, and undeniably a novel of ideas.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“A victory . . . The Interestings secures Wolitzer’s place among the best novelists of her generation. . . . She’s every bit as literary as Franzen or Eugenides. But the very human moments in her work hit you harder than the big ideas. This isn’t women’s fiction. It’s everyone’s.”
—Entertainment Weekly (A)
“I don’t want to insult Meg Wolitzer by calling her sprawling, engrossing new novel, The Interestings, her most ambitious, because throughout her thirty-year career of turning out well-observed, often very funny books at a steady pace, I have no doubt she has always been ambitious. . . . But The Interestings is exactly the kind of book that literary sorts who talk about ambitious works . . . are talking about. . . . Wolitzer is almost crushingly insightful; she doesn’t just mine the contemporary mind, she seems to invade it.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
“A supremely engrossing, deeply knowing, genius-level enterprise . . . The novel is thick and thickly populated. And yet Wolitzer is brilliant at keeping the reader close by her side as she takes her story back and forth across time, in and out of multiple lives, and into the tangle of countless continuing, sometimes compromising, conversations.”
—Chicago Tribune
“Masterful, sweeping . . . frequently funny and always engaging . . . A story that feels real and true and more than fulfills the promise of the title. It is interesting, yes, but also moving, compelling, fascinating, and rewarding.”
—The Miami Herald
“It’s a ritual of childhood—that solemn vow never to lose touch, no matter what. And for six artsy teenagers whose lives unfold in Wolitzer’s bighearted, ambitious new novel, the vow holds for almost four decades.”
—People
“In probing the unpredictable relationship between early promise and success and the more dependable one between self-acceptance and happiness, Wolitzer’s novel is not just a big book but a shrewd one.”
—The Christian Science Monitor
“[The Interestings] soars, primarily because Wolitzer insists on taking our teenage selves seriously and, rather than coldly satirizing them, comes at them with warm humor and adult wisdom.”
—Elle
“In Meg Wolitzer’s lovely, wise The Interestings, Julie Jacobson begins the summer of ’74 as an outsider at arts camp until she is accepted into a clique of teenagers with whom she forms a lifelong bond. Through well-tuned drama and compassionate humor, Wolitzer chronicles the living organism that is friendship, and arcs it over the course of more than thirty years.”
—O, The Oprah Magazine
“Wonderful.”
—Vanity Fair
“Juicy, perceptive and vividly written.”
—NPR.org
“A sprawling, ambitious and often wistful novel.”
—USA Today
“Smart, nuanced, and fun to read, in part because of the effervescent evocation of New York City from Watergate to today, in part because of the idiosyncratic authenticity of her characters.”
—The Daily Beast
“You’ll want to be friends with these characters long after you put down the book.”
—Marie Claire
“A page-turner.”
—Cosmopolitan
“[A] big, juicy novel . . . Wolitzer’s finger is unerringly on the pulse of our social culture.”
—Reader’s Digest
Praise for The Uncoupling
“Enchanting from start to finish . . . Thoughtful and touching, The Uncoupling is also very funny.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“Keenly observant.”
—Los Angeles Times
“Wolitzer writes with wit and barbed insight . . . a master of modern fiction.”
—Entertainment Weekly
“Wonderfully funny . . . reveals a wry understanding of modern relationships.”
—The Seattle Times
“At this point in her career, Meg Wolitzer deserves to be a household name.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
“[Wolitzer’s] wittiest and most incisive work yet.”
—People
“[A] sly homage to the Aristophanes classic Lysistrata.”
—O, The Oprah Magazine
“A sage exploration of the role of sex in both sustaining and wrecking relationships.”
—The Wall Street Journal
“Wolitzer expertly teases out the socio-sexual power dynamics between men and women.”
—Vanity Fair
“Meg Wolitzer, like Tom Perrotta, is an author who makes you wonder why more people don’t write perceptive, entertaining, unassuming novels about how and why ordinary people choose to make decisions about their lives. . . . The Uncoupling is a novel that can’t help but make you think about your own relationship.”
—Nick Hornby in The Believer
“Every few years [Wolitzer] turns out a sparkling novel that manages to bring the shine back to big, tarnished issues of gender politics, such as women’s pull between work and family, or the role of sexuality in family dynamics.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
“Superbly written, wry yet compassionate.”
—ABC News
Praise for The Ten-Year Nap
“About as real as it gets. A beautifully precise description of modern family life: the compromises, the peculiarities, the questions, the reconciliations to fate and necessity . . . written with the author’s trademark blend of tenderness and bite.”
—Chicago Tribune
“Vividly, satisfyingly real.”
—Entertainment Weekly
“Very entertaining. The tartly funny Wolitzer is a miniaturist who can nail a contemporary type, scene or artifact with deadeye accuracy.”
—The New York Times
“The ultimate peril is motherhood, loving someone more than you love yourself. Meg Wolitzer nails it with tenderness and wit.”
—O, The Oprah Magazine
“Everyone has an opinion about stay-at-home mothers. With her new novel, Meg Wolitzer has just one agenda—to tell the truth about their lives. An engrossing, juicy read.”
—Salon
“Wolitzer perfectly captures her women’s resolve in the face of a dizzying array of conflicting loyalties. To whom does a woman owe her primary allegiance? Her children? Her mother? Her friends, spouse, community? God forbid, herself?”
—The Washington Post
“Provocative . . . Wolitzer’s intimate look into these women’s subsequent quests for validation is both liberating and poignant, as she deftly explores the relationships among family, friends, husbands, and lovers that shape her heroine’s views of their pasts and the uncertainties of the future.”
—Elle
“[Wolitzer’s] smart, funny, and deeply provocative novel takes the lives of its women very seriously. . . . She follows the inner workings of the minds of a group of friends in hilarious detail without condescending or judging. . . . It’s a marvelous jungle in there, especially when written with Meg Wolitzer’s unsentimental compassion and wit.”
—Minneapolis Star Tribune