“A consummately accomplished novel. A worthy treatise on the now.”
—Kirkus, starred review
“A brilliant, visceral, sensual examination of the condition of being a woman, and the inherent struggles related to identity and authority that exist for all of us.”
—Nylon
“Anna Moschovakis has done something remarkable.”
—Los Angeles Review of Books
“Moschovakis’s novel is braided and experimental, yet it looks for illumination in the plainspoken and the authentic.”
—The Wall Street Journal
“[A] book meant for those of us whose sparkle is wearing off and whose lives are beginning to resemble something in a Camus novel.”
—PANK
“[A] searching and poignant work that deftly positions itself between the unspeakable specificity of personal experience and the disturbing surplus of fungible narratives in our online world.”
—Cleaver
“Life isn’t seen as a grand arc but as one thing after another, second by second. [Moschovakis] offers each moment, each sentence equably and leaves us to decide what is important and how.”
—The Star Tribune
“By turns funny, melancholic, and provocative, Anna’s novel undoes and remakes the conventions of realist fiction through repetition and compression of time . . . It is ‘luminously ordinary’ in its progression, where profound shifts are as small as a postcard written or a hand touched.”
—BOMB
“Moschovakis is in search of a way of presenting a woman’s life that is not expressed solely through family and bonds with others—that rebuffs inherited conventions while acknowledging that women are still labouring their way through the mare’s nest chaotically erected by patriarchy.”
—Frieze
“Moschovakis has created a novel of great strength and flex. Much as it bends and twists and gyres, it does not break, in fact only accumulates more tensile strength from the motion, just as, one hopes, we all can do.”
—The Brooklyn Rail
“Eleanor is a witty novel, studded with provocative literary and philosophical references.”
—BBC
“Moschovakis’ book seem[s] to arrange itself as we move, dreamlike, through it, encountering a singular architecture of novel and novelist that challenges us to read and think towards new possibilities, new heights.”
—Arkansas International
“Moschovakis is a poet, and Eleanor is unmistakably a poet’s novel, alert to the textures of experience but relaxed in the pursuit of plot.”
—Lambda Literary
“Moschovakis’s characters are celebrations of the information-collecting prowess of women, of the way in which her characters ‘weigh and consider’ . . . an overwhelming amount of data throughout each day.”
—Rain Taxi
“Anna Moschovakis takes the reader straight to the terrifying edge: that moment where one ages out of youthfulness and begins to flutter in the debris of middle living, flattened out by technology, wild-goose chasing one’s data.”
—Renee Gladman
"With keen insight and probing humor, Anna Moschovakis vitally engages the ecosystem of art, ideas, and narratives that make up the things that we call our lives.”
—Alexandra Kleeman
“Anna Moschovakis is one of the most invigorating invigilators of our current moment, in all of its complexity and vexatious paradox. To paraphrase its protagonist, this book is a performance that is quality life—try now!”
—James Hannaham
