

But it is Victor LaValle's peculiar, poetic, rough and funny voice that brings it to us, alive and kicking and irresistible.”-Amy Bloom, author of the New York Times bestseller Away

“If Hieronymus Bosch and Lenny Bruce got knocked up by a woman with a large and compassionate heart, they might have brought forth Big Machine. devilish fable renders the visible world–of science, social hierarchies, and New York Times headlines–a load of cultish hooey.” “LaValle is as much wry fabulist as he is dogged allegorist, and his flights of grim fancy are tethered by acute observations. The multicultural novel has come of age - smashingly.” - Kirkus (starred) “Fractures all of our notions of how well-made fiction ought to behave.idea-hungry and haywire, too alive and abrasive to be missed.
