THE EVERY BOY

A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE

A "BOOK SENSE NOTABLE" BOOK

"So many young writers have been described as 'Salingeresque' that it's a shock to come across one who actually fits the bill."
- TOM PERROTTA

"Quirky, not 'quirky.' Profound, not precious. A magical, haunting, hilarious debut."
- AMY SEDARIS

“This is a brilliant novel by an extraordinarily talented writer. Anyone who reads it with care will see immediately that it isn’t Salinger or Roth or anyone else. It is Shapiro, a wonderful, new, surprising talent, whose writing is already elegantly refined.”
- MICHAEL PAYNE

“For a novel whose appealing teenage protagonist is pronounced dead on page one, The Every Boy is remarkably buoyant and witty, without sacrificing gravitas. Its hero and its author both are unsentimentally perceptive and optimistic about the oddness and difficulty and even, sometimes, the joy of being a human among humans.”
- MATTHEW SHARPE