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A.M. Homes is the author of the novels May We Be Forgiven, which won the Women's Prize in 2013, This Book Will Save Your Life, a Richard and Judy pick in 2007, Music for Torching, The End of Alice, In a Country of Mothers and Jack, three collections of short stories, Days of Awe, Things You Should Know and The Safety of Objects, and the highly acclaimed memoir The Mistress's Daughter, as well as the travel memoir Los Angeles. A Washington D.C. native, she currently teaches at Princeton University and lives in New York City.I am a devoted Homes fan: her books are sometimes shocking, always beguiling
- Maggie O'Farrell, US Elle
The best book she's published: for her to get into the shoes of its main character was a remarkable act of sympathetic imagination
- Bret Easton Ellis, Observer
A terrific black comedy, written almost entirely in pitch-perfect dialogue, that feels terrifyingly close to the unfunny truth
- Salman Rushdie,
Reads like an episode of The West Wing co-scripted by Don DeLillo
Guardian
Homes specialises in the insecurities, deceits and emotional desolation of America's elite... hilarious
Sunday Times
Homes is a funny, funny writer... Funny, of course, until it's terrifying
Spectator
From her first book onward, A. M. Holmes has been challenging us to look at fiction, the world, and one another as we haven't done-because we haven't had the nerve, the eyes, the dire and dispassionate imagination. Gripping, sad, funny, by turns aching and antic and, as always, exceedingly well-observed and written, The Unfolding opens up another one of her jagged windows, at times indistinguishable from a crack, in the world that is always unfolding, and always vanishing, around us
- Michael Chabon,
Compelling, funny, horrifying, and tremendously astute, this novel cuts right to the bone
- Phil Klay, author of Missionaries,
How can a book be hilarious and chilling at the same time? A.M. Homes's The Unfolding is a modern masterpiece, a scary immersion deep into the heart of American power
- Gary Shteyngart, author of Our Country Friends,
A timely discourse on the fracturing of the US democracy ... [with] superbly calibrated dialogue
Mail on Sunday
A.M. Homes has perfectly captured an America as it lurches toward freak-out, and a family as it shreds the lies it's been living by... Hilarious and shocking and heartbreaking and just a little bit deranged
- Nathan Hill, author of The Nix,
The Unfolding is Swiftian in its energy and bite, yet brimful of compassion and emotion. The entwining of the personal and the political feels as if it's born again to a sparkling new life. How does she do it?
Neel Mukherjee
Darkly comic
i Paper
A book that packs in history lessons, political intrigue, family drama and astute social commentary. In short, a study of America as a country in free fall by a writer who knows exactly where it's at
Irish Independent
Sharply observed, Homes' novel is also very funny, making you wince through the laughter in the way that successful satire does... riveting
- Susan Osborne, A Life in Books
The Unfolding powerfully captures something of how nuance and complexity are all too often pushed aside by those who talk the loudest in a fractiously partisan political landscape
TLS
The Unfolding proceeds at a cracking pace... It is both social satire and political satire with a touching coming-of-age story at its core. AM Homes is both funny and sharp, and her prose buzzes with energy
Irish Examiner
[A] scorching, super sharp novel
Sainsbury's Magazine