"This book has a universal quality, capturing a generation's angst quite like
Franny and Zooey did when it was published in 1961."
--Chicago Tribune "
The Fallback Plan is to this generation what Rick Moody's
The Ice Storm was to the previous generation, and
The Catcher in the Rye before that."
--Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Review of Books "Stein's wry voice shines through... her self-aware take on the self-pitying recession-grad generation is compelling reading."
--The Millions "Stein, 26, captures the voice of the young 20-something prodigal daughter with the clarion call of authenticity in her debut novel. ... Stein's light, accessible, self-deprecating prose makes this coming-of-age story a pleasure."--
Publishers Weekly "Stein's fluid style is peppered with wryness and pop-culture references...[she] seems poised to become the Lena Dunham of contemporary fiction."
--ELLE
"Readers will endorse Esther Kohler's voice as being not only funny, but also true. It echoes long after her story ends, and "The Fallback Plan'' is a novel everyone under 30 will relate to with familiar pangs of self-loathing and sympathy."
--Boston Globe "An existential crisis of lost 20-somethings that pretty much everyone can relate to."
--NYLON "Cheeky, self-assured prose."
--O: The Oprah Magazine "Beautiful, funny, thrilling and true."
--Gary Shteyngart (Super Sad True Love Story) "Intimate, urgent, and laugh-out-loud funny, Leigh Stein's novel bravely investigates the splendor and tragedy of the end of youth with a sensitivity and lyrical deftness that will not disappoint. Think
Franny and Zooey. Think
Goodbye, Columbus. Think of this book as your next great read."
--Joe Meno (Hairstyles of the Damned, The Great Perhaps) "[A] fantastic book whose charm and warmth beg for a second read-through."
--InDigest Magazine" The Fallback Plan has got it all: Sex, love, drugs, death, infidelity and one very confused post-grad."--College Magazine