Mouth to Mouth

Carries distinct shades of Patricia Highsmith and Donna Tartt... A supremely gripping tale of serendipity and deception, and delivers a brilliant ending that will leave you guessing about everything that came before * Vogue, Best Books of 2022 *
Jaw-Dropping * Time, Must Read Book of the Year *
A gem of a novel... Devilish * Esquire, Best Books of 2022 *
The ghost of Tom Ripley hangs over this slippery tale... A novel to gulp in one sitting * Daily Mail *
Breathes new life into the literary thriller... Mouth to Mouth is to be devoured in one greedy gulp * Financial Times *
Breakneck... The author plants and springs his plot surprises like a young master * Wall Street Journal *
Incredibly taught, funny, brilliantly described... Propulsive all the way up until the very end, which is unexpected and inevitable, as all the best endings are * Vanity Fair *
The writing is superb, the pace pitch-perfect, the slim story so gripping I read it within 24 hours * Boston Globe *
Swift, and graceful, an agile novel of ideas with unexpectedly sharp teeth * Lauren Groff, National Book Award-shortlisted author of Matrix *
The best book I've read in ages... I see you now, dear Reader, with this novel in your hand and already losing track of time * Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less *
Compulsive... Addictive... Mouth to Mouth interrogates the very nature of identity, destiny and storytelling * Adam Johnson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Orphan Master’s Son *
A stunner of a novel. Mouth to Mouth shook and thrilled me from the first page to the last * Daniel Alarcón, author of At Night We Walk in Circles *
I read this book in one rapturous sitting, jotting down line after line, riveted until the final shocking, clarifying sentence * Sarah Manguso, author of 300 Arguments *
Sinewy and mesmerizing... Antoine Wilson's on a high wire and he never makes a wrong move * Marisa Silver, author of Little Nothing and The Mysteries *
A rarity, a perfect narrative machine, working by its own laws. It enmeshes the reader in a trap of complicity, one that snaps shut on narrator and reader at the same instant. Bravo. * Jonathan Lethem, author of The Fortress of Solitude *