Mislaid - Hardcover

"There's nothing derivative about Nell Zink's hip, hilarious and unexpectedly moving novel Mislaid... Zink has a genius for making the bizarre seem natural... makes for one of the most satisfying happy endings in recent fiction."--Wall Street Journal

"A writer of extraordinary talent and range. Her work insistently raises the possibility that the world is larger and stranger than the world you think you know. You might not want to believe this, but her sentences and stories are so strong and convincing that you'll have no choice."--Jonathan Franzen

"Zink's energy pulses in narration. [She] is original, unsentimental, erudite, and something of a naturalist. Her vocabulary is tremendous [and] her sentences are penetrating and agile."--Harper's Magazine

The bracing disconnect between sly, low-affect prose and Gothic strangeness recalls Flannery O'Connor and Jean Stafford--mid-century women you could imagine crossing paths with Peggy and shuddering."--Vulture

"A startlingly original novel about the dissolution of an eccentric American family."--Harper's Bazaar

"Zink's capacity for inventions is immense... [Mislaid] zips along with a giddy, lunatic momentum. It's perverse wackiness is irresistible; unlike just about everything engineered to make you laugh out loud, Zink's novel actually does, over and over again... She knows how to let her freak flag fly."--BookForum

"Crafting a zany story with outlandish characters doing the unexpected, Zink successfully creates a comedy of errors offering a happy ending for an impossible situation."--Library Journal

"Mislaid is a sprawling multi-generational saga of a Southern family that is as absurd and hilarious as it is tragic and seeing."--VanityFair.com

"The title of Nell Zink's new novel is just the first wry, indecorous joke in this zany-brainy story...Zink writes with such faux innocence that her cracks about sexuality and race detonate only after she has riffed off to the next unlikely incident."--Washington Post

"A comedic finale worthy of Shakespeare."--Paste