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Selected praise and accolades for Anthony Marra's "A Constellation of Vital Phenomena"
"A "New York Times" Book Review Notable Book of the Year
New York Times" Bestseller
National Book Award Longlist Selection
A "Washington Post" Top 10 Book of the Year
"Washington Post" Bestseller
NPR Bestseller
Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Winner
An ALA Notable Book of the Year
A #1 Indie Pick
An Amazon.com Best Book of the Year
A "Publisher's Weekly" Top 10 Books of the Year
A "Kirkus Reviews" Best Book of the Year
A "Library Journal" Top 10 Book of the Year
NBCC John Leonard Prize Winner
Named one of the Best Books of the Year by:
"New York "Magazine * "Chicago Tribune * Kansas City Star" * "GQ * NPR * Christian Science Monitor * San Francisco Chronicle * Cleveland Plain Dealer
""Brilliant."
--"New York Times"
"A flash in the heavens that makes you look up and believe in miracles....Here, in fresh, graceful prose, is a profound story that dares to be as tender as it is ghastly, a story about desperate lives in a remote land that will quickly seem impossibly close and important....I haven't been so overwhelmed by a novel in years. At the risk of raising your expectations too high, I have to say you simply must read this book."
--Ron Charles, "Washington Post"
"Extraordinary....a 21st century War and Peace....Marra seems to derive his astral calm in the face of catastrophe directly from Tolstoy."
--Madison Smartt Bell, "New York Times Book Review"
""A Constellation of Vital Phenomena" is ambitious and intellectually restless....[Marra is] a lover not a fighter, a prose writer who resembles the Joseph Heller of "Catch-22" and the Jonathan Safran Foer of "Everything Is Illuminated.""
--Dwight Garner, "New York Times"
"Over and over again, this is an examination of the ways in which many broken pieces come together to make a new whole. In exquisite imagery, Marra tends carefully to the twisted strands of grace and tragedy....Everything in "A Constellation of Vital Phenomena."..is dignified with a hoping, aching heartbeat."
--Ramona Ausubel, "San Francisco Chronicle"

Praise for Anthony Marra's "A Constellation of Vital Phenomena"
"Approaches something like the gauzy beauty of Ondaatje's prose." "Maclean's"
"Extraordinary...A 21st-century "War and Peace."" "New York Times Book Review"
"Amazing...brilliant...one of the most accomplished and affecting books I've read in a very long time." Meg Wolitzer, author of "The Interestings," for NPR
"Haunting in its depiction of what people will do to each other, as well as how far they will go to help each other." "Chatelaine"