A Replacement Life - Softcover

'Fishman's ability to handle the highly complex moral ambiguities as well as his laugh-out-loud one-liners make this a brilliant tragicomedy - one that almost matches Howard Jacobson at his best' Christina Appleyard, Daily Mail

'The real thing... Fishman is at his best... in the disputed territory between truth and lies' Observer 'Funny and astute' Sunday Times

'Piercing, witty and enviably well written' New Statesman 'A powerful yet tender narrative that explores the tug of war between the past and the future for immigrant families in America' Newsweek 'Ingenious'- New Yorker

'Excellent writing, memorable and "real" characters, and a compelling plot' We Love This Book ‘A Replacement Life is a memorable debut by a wonderfully gifted young writer... Boris Fishman has written a beautifully nuanced, tender, and often very funny novel about conscience and familial loyalty that will linger long in the memory’ - Joyce Carol Oates

’Is there room in American fiction for another brilliant young émigré writer? There had better be, because here he is. Boris Fishman's first novel, A Replacement Life, is bold, ambitious and wickedly smart... The only problem with this novel is that its covers are too close together. I wanted more’ - Patricia T. O'Conner, New York Times Book Review

’Astonishingly brilliant... we are left satisfyingly provoked by the book's deeper questions about culture and ethics and survival and human nature itself’ - Chicago Tribune

’Mordantly funny and moving’ - The New York Times

’So strong in voice, humor, and compassion that it transcends fiction's limitations to become something wilder and more contained - like life. What a remarkable debut - true and resonate, humorous and real’ - Hilton Als

’Shines with a love for language and craft’ - starred review, Publishers Weekly

’Fishman fearlessly tackles the grandest subjects... a writer not only to watch but envy’ - Tom Bissell

’A terrific talent... a gifted and accomplished writer’ - Salvatore Scibona

’Stunning... A Replacement Life deserves a wide audience’ - Jim Harrison

’A novel that works beautifully on many levels’ - Arthur Phillips

’A hell of a book. Told with amazing virtuosity, fun and serious, funny and sad, profound and eminently readable’ - Darin Strauss

’Suffused with elegant language and sly humor and composed with the authority of a novelist on intimate terms with both his subject matter and art form’ - Teddy Wayne, author of The Love Song of Jonny Valentine

’There's a touch of Gogol here, a touch of Babel, a touch of Dostoyevsky, but... Boris Fishman has fashioned something distinctively and triumphantly his own’ - Brian Morton, author of Starting Out in the Evening

’That rare thing: A novel that asks the big questions, embedded in a page-turner haunted by characters who walk off the page’ - Walter Kirn