Harvard Square: A Novel [Paperback]

[Aciman's] best so far&an existentialist adventure worthy of Kerouac.Slyly comic&Touching and beautifully written.A plaintive love letter to displaced, wandering people, to anyone who longs for home and reaches unwisely for the hand of a fellow wanderer.Timely, affecting&Quietly tragic.Entertaining and moving&.Aciman writes a vigorous, muscular prose that is as seductive as his characters.A darker account of exile itself and the uncertainties of accommodation to a new world while memories of the old tug painfully&. Kalaj [is] warm, impetuous, and whole-hearted&. Aciman succeeds in making him unforgettable.An illuminating character study and poignant meditation on the twin trials of how to fit in and how to be loved.Aciman tackles Big Ideas by observing the smallest, most intimate gestures of two people and letting them talkand his characters talk beautifully.Powerful& As in so many classic novels before it,Brilliant&A novel of education and isolation, sad and funny and sure to provoke nostalgia for anyones college years. So candid, so penetrating and so beautifully written that it can make you feel cut open, emotionally exposed. Sam Sacks,