Fiona Maazel is the author of Woke Up Lonely and Last Last Chance. She is a winner of the Bard Fiction Prize and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The New York Times Book Review, Harper's Magazine, and Tin House. She lives in Brooklyn.
A Most Anticipated Book for 2017 by the Star Tribune and the
Chicago Review of Books"[Fiona Maazel is] a dazzling prose stylist
with a gift for creating characters caught in extraordinary
situations that defy credulity. Imagine a situation comedy written
by Phillip K. Dick or a telenovela penned by Thomas Pynchon."--Los
Angeles Times"Fiona Maazel's prose is delightfully quirky, insanely
amusing and impossible to put down: Once again, she knocks it out
of the park with a tale that pulls no punches and looks the borders
of genre square in the eyes before tearing it all
down."--Newsweek"A tragicomic tale of an extraordinary schlub just
trying to hold his life together."--O, The Oprah
Magazine"Tempest-like plots are hatched and mysteries surface.
Washing up in a boat graveyard is a body that newspapers call 'the
Swimmer.' (To identify him, characters travel to Denmark, which
gives the novel's conspiracy a Pynchonian multinational quality.)
The brain-damaged patients in the Snyder Center present the kind of
cognitive idiosyncrasies reported by Oliver Sacks. . . . This is,
in other words, an unquestionably brainy book."--The New York Times
Book Review"This idiosyncratic thriller, set in Staten Island, is
layered with secrets."--The New Yorker"[Fiona Maazel's] writing is
bright and shiny, as fun to follow as that bouncing ball."--Star
Tribune (Minneapolis)"Maazel has rifled deftly through genres to
create something in a class entirely by itself."--The Millions "[A]
dazzling tragicomedy.. . . A Little More Human intelligently
questions how much we really know ourselves."--Chicago Review of
Books
"Brooklyn novelist Maazel has always gone her own way, resulting in
brilliant and bizarre books like Last Last Chance and Woke Up
Lonely. Her latest novel follows a nursing assistant with a failing
marriage and an intriguing second life: By night, he's a
mind-reading superhero, complete with costume, named Brainstorm."--
Men's Journal"Maazel's willingness to bring in almost any subject
and filter it through her characters gives the writing the
exhilarating rush of a roller coaster."--PopMatters"A Little More
Human, in its spiraling, fast-paced, witty prose, is stylistically
reminiscent of the best of Vonnegut and Pynchon. . . . [Fiona
Maazel] layers and constellates the conventions of science fiction,
satire, noir, domestic drama, and the superhero narrative to create
her own magnificent hybrid."--Washington Independent Review of
Books "Deeply rewarding reading."--Tor.com"[A Little More Human]
blends science fiction, satire, farce, literary mystery, and comic
book adventure that probes the human heart. . . [with] clever,
incisive prose."--Publishers Weekly"A literary-pop crossover to
watch."--Library Journal Pre Pub Alerts"[A] humorous romp. . . .
Recommended for Maazel fans, lovers of tragicomedy, and all who
enjoy the absurd."--Library Journal"Maazel takes a dark, inventive
look at the cost of pushing humans to their
limits."--Booklist"Maazel gets the manifold ways in which
contemporary life is ridiculous. She also understands the ways in
which comedy trends toward disaster. And, finally, she's smart
enough to interrogate the ways in which comedy and tragedy are the
same. A treat for Maazel's fans."--Kirkus Reviews"Fiona Maazel is
an explorer, a risk-taker, a mad scientist--an artist, in other
words--and A Little More Human is her most brilliant and
uncompromising novel yet. Take this book home and read it right
away, preferably in your superhero suit."--John Wray, author of The
Lost Time Accidents "Maazel is a brilliant acrobat, leading a
reader to unimagined sights with humor, wonder and vibrant
intelligence. Surefooted and powerful as DeLillo, Maazel lands it
perfectly every time."--Samantha Hunt, author of Mr.
Splitfoot"Listen, skip the blurbs and just buy the damn book. Fiona
Maazel is one of the funniest and finest we've got."--Sam
Lipsyte"The goal of most novelists is to hold, as 'twere, the
mirror up to nature, but all too often their fastidious accuracy
fails them. Their books don't recreate reality, they flatten it.
Luckily, Fiona Maazel is not most novelists. She has the special
ability to turn the reality dial up to eleven, blasting her readers
past verisimilitude and into the rarefied air where they can feel
what it means to live in our confusing modern world. . . . By the
time Maazel's absurdist spin cycle is finished, your whites will be
whiter and your colors will be brighter than they've ever been
before. You'll never switch back to your old detergent
again."--James Crossley, Island Books, Mercer Island, WA"A Little
More Human reads like if you mixed Swamplandia! with DeLillo, and
threw in some Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde for good measure. This
excerpt, to me, sums it up: "He pressed the pad of his finger into
a grain of sugar, but when he touched it to his tongue, it was
salt." It's delightful, unexpected, and sobering at every
turn."--Will Walton, Avid Bookshop, Athens, GA"Unstoppably
captivating and clever! Maazel's latest novel artfully folds a
twisted tale of lies, deceit, mind-reading, and consequences into a
virtuosically zany medical dystopia. Whether you love or hate Phil,
the story's duty-shucking Everyman protagonist, you'd better strap
yourself in tight for a ride on Maazel's wild and artful prose, one
that will leave you wondering if it's possible to truly know
yourself, while still laughing aloud at every remarkable
detail!"--Annie Harvieux, Magers & Quinn, Minneapolis, MN"Fiona
Maazel's seamless novel draws you in subtly and irresistibly. I
just had to know how Phil Snyder (nursing assistant, professional
superhero impersonator, and actual mind-reader) ended up on a horse
with no memory of how he got there and splashes of blood on his
clothes. Uncovering secrets in snippets along with Phil reminded me
of his own mind-reading talent and built the suspense beautifully
page by page. Another literary, clever masterpiece from Fiona
Maazel!"--Anna Thorn, Upshur St. Books, Washington, D.C."A Little
More Human has it all--a shady biotech company performing ethically
questionable experiments, conspiracy, paranoia, and a tangled web
of personal ties."--Hunter Gillum, Beaverdale Books, Des Moines, IA
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