“Almond’s language is rendered in precise strokes with metaphors so original and spot-on that they read like epiphanies.”
—SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
“Remarkably good … It will leave you feeling quite wonderful.”
—THE GUARDIAN
“This book will, yes, make you hungry, but it will also make you grateful—for wit, for self-effacing humor, for joyful obsessiveness, for the precise and loving use of language to crack open and celebrate our oddness—in short, for a writer as funny and bighearted as Steve Almond. It’s about candy, yes, but also it’s about America, which seems to be Bigging itself towards mediocrity as it flees from the quirky virtuosic individuality on which it was founded, and of which this book is such a wonderful example.”
—GEORGE SAUNDERS
“I got a real sugar rush and cluster headache reading this bittersweet book by Steve Almond–joy, the sugar daddy himself. I won’t sugar coat it—this book is one sweet treat.”
—AMY SEDARIS