A beautiful, lyric hymn to the power of social unrest in American history. It's funny and harrowing, sweet and violent, innocent and experienced; it walks a dozen tightropes. Jess Walter is a national treasure, Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot SeeThe fact that the same author has written books as wildly different and all as transporting as The Zero, The Financial Lives of the Poets, Beautiful Ruins, and now this latest tour de force is testimony to Walter's protean storytelling power and astounding ability to set a scene, any scene . . . We have heard that Jess Walter writes nonstop: Seven days a week, 365 days a year. Please, never stop., Kirkus, starred reviewSuperb.... a splendid postmodern rendition of the social realist novels of the 1930s by Henry Roth, John Steinbeck, and John Dos Passos, updated with strong female characters and executed with pristine prose. This could well be Walter's best work yet., Publishers Weekly, starred reviewAn ambitious, large-hearted, exhilarating novel that leaves you wanting more . . . Very, very funny, The Times, on Beautiful RuinsIntelligent and thought-provoking, but also a lot of fun , Sunday Times, on Beautiful RuinsMagic . . . A monument to crazy love with a deeply romantic heart, New York Times, on Beautiful Ruins Biografía del autor Jess Walter is the author of six novels, including The Financial Lives of the Poets. Beautiful Ruins was a New York Times bestseller, and We Live in Water was one of Barack Obama's books of 2019. Jess Walter lives in Spokane, Washington with his family.