Atmospheric Disturbances

"A brainy, whimsical, emotionally contained first novel . . . Galchen's inventive narrative strategies call to mind the playful techniques of Jonathan Lethem, Franz Kafka, Primo Levi, and Thomas Pynchon."--Liesl Schillinger, "The New York Times Book Review""A dense, fractally complex first novel by the conspicuously talented Rivka Galchen."--Lev Grossman, "Time
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"A relentless exploration of how a man could fail to see clearly the woman he loves . . . Galchen has written an original and sometimes affecting novel, one that knows how to move from the comic to the painful."--James Wood, "The New Yorker"

"At once mournful and playful . . . droll, exquisite."--Laura Miller, "Salon.com """

"A relentless exploration of how a man could fail to see clearly the woman he loves . . . [A novel] that knows how to move from the comic to the painful . . . Galchen has a knack for taking a thread and fraying it, so that a sentence never quite ends up where you expect."--James Wood, "The New Yorker"
"At once mournful and playful . . . [a] droll, exquisite first novel."--Laura Miller, "Salon.com"
"There are passages so achingly beautiful in Galchen's strange puzzle of a book--about love, resilience, and perception."--Jennifer Reese, "Entertainment Weekly "(Grade A)
"A dense, fractally complex first novel by the conspicuously talented Rivka Galchen."--Lev Grossman, "Time"
"Galchen's dark and comical mystery is a clever take on the ways love, longing and overanalysis can drive you absolutely nuts."--"Marie Claire"
"Genuinely suspenseful . . . Ms. Galchen is a writer to be watched."--"The Economist"

Rivka Galchen