"Mandel's gift is to weave realism out of extremity. She plants her flag where the ordinary and the astonishing meet, where everyday people pause to wonder how, exactly, it came to this. She is our bard of waking up in the wrong time line."--Katy Waldman, The New Yorker A New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, Newsweek, Bustle, Buzzfeed, GoodReads, Houston …More