American Fantasy

I can hardly remember the last time I read anything that brought me such pure joy. I was up too late reading, then got up too early to go back to reading. All I wanted was American Fantasy. It brims with truth and humanity and insight, and it made me snort like a pig. I loved it. I think the entire country will love it.

Ann Patchett

Straub writes with such verve and sympathetic understanding of her characters . . . Reading this novel has all the pleasures of reading one of Anne Tyler's compelling family portraits

New York Times

Straub writes beautifully and amusingly . . . hard to beat for sheer charm and gentle wit

Daily Mail

Hugely talented . . . intelligent holiday reading

Woman's Hour, BBC Radio 4

A delicious novel about being a grown-up girl who once loved something very, very much. You don't have to be a fan of something to love American Fantasy, but if you've ever truly devoted yourself to a boy band or a TV show or even a series of books, you will feel so understood by this novel.

Rainbow Rowell

Emma Straub [is] the queen of the smart-girl summer read

Entertainment Weekly

It’s Straub, so you know it’s going to be funny, touching, and filled with family drama.

Glamour

A gorgeous and witty storyteller

Elizabeth Gilbert

Emma Straub is the most empathetic and open-hearted writer in literature. It is pure joy to see her turn to the emotionally complicated territory of teenage nostalgia and what it means to reconnect with the feelings of youth from the realities of middle age. In American Fantasy Straub uncovers the beauty and regret of reconciling who we once were with who we are now.

Kevin Wilson