Wellness

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American storytelling at its era-spanning best . . . An immersive, multi-layered portrait of a marriage, Nathan Hill's follow-up to The Nix is a work of quiet genius . . . tackling a few big questions. What is truth? What is love? And therefore, inevitably, what is true love? * Observer * The incredible scope of this dazzlingly detailed state-of-the-nation satire almost defies description . . . Brilliant doesn't begin to describe it, but I'll say it anyway. * Daily Mail * Future historians, read this book . . . a crackling, witty chronicle of the world of the urban creative classes from the 1990s to now . . . I doubt I'll enjoy many books this year as much as Wellness. * The Times * The best book I've read all year. Yes, it really is THAT good. -- Elizabeth Day, author of <i>Magpie</i> Wonderful . . . deep, wise and startling -- Russell T. Davies A reader emerges from Hill's world of Wellness with a keener eye for the tragicomic maladies of marriage, and a greater ear for the strangely affecting rhythms and algorithms of 21st-century life. * The Guardian * A bewitching, sophisticated book * Financial Times * Wellness is not some naive, crunchy-granola midlife-crisis novel . . . [it] is a clear-eyed look at the difficulty to live honestly in a world where authenticity may be the most challenged idea of all. * The Washington Post * This brilliant novel will leave you thinking about the truth of your own life and the stories we tell ourselves and each other -- Oprah Winfrey It's that rarest of beasts - a towering masterpiece that is also a page-turner. . . In fact it's everything - hilarious, profound, beautiful, deeply interesting and bursting with ideas -- India Knight A clever satire on America's self-deluding 'wellness' class . . . The variety and ingenuity of Hill's satirical prods - from real-estate development to Facebook algorithms - is impressive. * The Telegraph * This soulful satire takes aim at everything from gentrification to 'life hacks'. But it's also ambitious - and some nifty plotting by Hill reveals just how entangled contentment is with the stories we tell about ourselves. * Mail on Sunday * A compassionate satire of messy America * i newspaper * Hill's storytelling abilities are impressive . . . His novels vividly capture lonely Midwestern childhoods and real yearning for connection and understanding. * The New York Times * Wellness is a perfect novel for our age . . . It's beyond remarkable, both funny and heartbreaking, sometimes on the same page. * NPR * A hilarious and moving exploration of a modern marriage that astounds in its breadth and intimacy -- Brit Bennett, author of <i>The Mothers</i> and <i>The Vanishing Half</i> Hill is witty at exposing the ways intelligence and social background don't necessarily make us more immune to manipulation. * Los Angeles Times * I read Hill's novel with excitement and close to a sense of disbelief that there is still a writer out there who is intrigued by amplitude and by what fiction can do if pushed far enough. -- Daphne Merkin, <i>The Atlantic</i> Wellness brilliantly blends ideas about wellness culture, modern parenting, Internet algorithms, gentrification, and most importantly, love. * People * This new novel from the author of 2016 bestseller The Nix certainly packs a lot into its pages - parenting trends, the wellness industry, the meaning of art, conspiracy theories - all explored through scenes from the twenty-year marriage between Elizabeth and Jack, as the pair grow together and apart again. Meaty but very readable * Good Housekeeping * Nathan Hill has synthesized about a hundred years of that distinctly American delusion called self-improvement, and Wellness is the whip smart and gently comic result. -- Joshua Ferris, author of <i>Then We Came to the End</i> Wellness is one of the funniest, saddest, smartest novels I've ever read . . . It's a flat-out masterpiece. -- Anthony Marra, author of <i>A Constellation of Vital Phenomena</i> A beautiful, sometimes sad, sometimes satirical but most of all honest book about the many people a person becomes - the way a life, in time, inevitably upends itself. -- Omar El Akkad, author of <i>American War</i> and <i>What Strange Paradise</i> Ambitious, deeply engrossing, whip-smart and ultimately heartbreaking, Nathan Hill's Wellness is all this and much more. -- Richard Russo, author of the North Bath Trilogy Hill blends a family chronicle with cultural critique in his expansive and surprisingly tender latest . . . This stunning novel of ideas never loses sight of its humanity. * Publishers Weekly * From the acclaimed author of The Nix comes another hugely ambitious novel, about how we change, grow and age, a story of marriage, middle age, our tech-obsessed health culture, and the bonds that keep people together. * Sheerluxe * Witty and thought-provoking * Glamour * Funny and heartbreaking and exasperating . . . a book to spend time in, that will keep you musing long after the last page * The New Zealand Herlad * One of my favourite kinds of novel: an expansive, multi-layered story that is both epic in scope and personal in resonance -- Elizabeth Day * Stylist * Brilliant and funny . . . It goes in such surprising directions. It's so nitty gritty on relationships and marriage, and who we are . . . excellent -- Rosamund Pike