?Ambitious, intelligent, hallucinatory, and, most important: heartfelt.?
?Gary Shteyngart

?When Rich writes of his characters, their affections, their impulses and failings, he writes generously and movingly?pointing the way to Nathaniel Rich?s promise as a fiction writer.?
?The New York Times Book Review

?Sublime invention.?
?New York Magazine

?Daring, wonderfully weird?as haunting as the reality-collapsing yarns of Paul Auster.?
? Interview

?If you?re a Pynchon or Fowles fan, it?s a novel for you.?
?San Francisco Chronicle

?Few American fiction debuts in recent years have thumbed their noses at literary convention like Nathaniel Rich?s The Mayor?s Tongue.?
?Time Out New York