Crudo

"Crudo could turn out to be a novel that we pick up years from now to remind ourselves how these times felt... Love may not be original, but this funny, fervent novel is." -- Alexandra Schwartz - The New Yorker
"Written with bristling intelligence... [Crudo is] about the longing to escape our ossified selves-to become, if only for moment or within the pages of a novel, someone wilder and more radically free. And in staging that longing so directly and so honestly, Olivia Laing makes Crudo her own." -- New York Times Book Review
"Like the foodstuff for which it is named, Olivia Laing's Crudo is weird, intense, served in a small portion, and totally delicious... Beautifully written and artfully focused." -- Rebecca Mead - The New Yorker
"Breathless and gripping... [Crudo] traps the first summer of Trump and Brexit like a fly in amber." -- NPR
"[A] pretzel twist of form and meaning... Laing strikes some terrific chords in this novel." -- Dwight Garner - New York Times
"Crudo seduces from the very first sentence. Laing as Acker is not a literary device-it is literary detonation... Crudo is a hot, hot book." -- Guardian
"[A] single moment in modernity, deconstructed by the savagely entertaining, Acker-inspired voice of Laing." -- Paris Review Daily
"A narrative written with immense vitality and, miraculously, the lightest of touches... It's a subversive love story that shouldn't work, but does." -- Deborah Levy - Wall Street Journal
"Laing's experiment, and it's a good one, is to describe the world-her world, between May 17 and September 23, 2017-as precisely as she can... [Crudo is] a short, entirely readable, and lovably eccentric book." -- Nick Hornby - The Believer
"Laing...dunks you into the narrative and its fast-moving waters. It's only once you get to the end that you realize you've been holding your breath." -- Vanity Fair
"[Crudo] manages to capture the delirium and anxiety of carrying on through [this] turbulent period with searing clarity." -- Time