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"This novel annihilated me. I gasped, laughed, and wept my way through it... Left my heart bruised and battered and aching for more." - Khaled Hosseini, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Kite Runner. "Blows open the heart of the past. It's a mystery, it's a picaresque, it's a comedy, and it's an authentic song of belonging and unbelonging. Tender and raw and funny." - Colum McCann, National Book Award winning author of Let the Great World Spin. "Propulsive, funny, and profound." - Elif Batuman, Pulitzer Prize finalist and bestselling author of The Idiot. "Astonishingly crafted with history, candor, beauty, grief and just a little magic. A book like no other, from an imagination like no other." - Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Less Is Lost.