Description: Praise for Caleb Crain's Necessary Errors : ONE OF THE YEAR'S BEST BOOKS: The Wall Street Journal , Slate , Kansas City Star , Flavorwire , Policy Mic , Buzzfeed A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE " Necessary Errors is a very good novel, an enviably good one, and to read it is to relive all the anxieties and illusions and grand projects of one's own youth." -- James Wood, The New Yorker "Ferociously observed. . . . We're not through with narratives about the Getting of Wisdom, Americans Abroad, Coming of Age, Gay Coming of Age, New Lost Generations. Among such works, a new narrative will be measured against Caleb Crain's fine book, which will endure as a powerful entry in the great fictional exploration of the meanings of liberation." -- Norman Rush, The New York Review of Books "Remarkable. . . . Necessary Errors seems exceptional among recent American novels in how smartly it turns over the economic metaphors in so much American thinking." -- David Haglund, The New York Times "Evocative. . . . Necessary Errors so completely recaptures the smells and scenes and political conversations and above all the feelings of 1990-1991 Czechoslovakia that I began to actively worry that Mr. Crain was inserting new memories into my brain." -- The Wall Street Journal "Crain wonderfully evokes the novel's setting in a few deft strokes. He's a master of the thumbnail character sketch. . . . Line by line, the book is chock-full of masterly word choices and images. . . . On almost every page the reader is rewarded with gems. Necessary Errors heralds the fiction debut of a writer with intelligence and an engaging prose style." -- The New York Times Book Review "A new model for contemporary fiction. . . . It recalls the dreamy pacing of Henry James or Elizabeth Bowen." -- Jane Hu, Slate "Caleb Crain's debut novel is at times reminiscent of Jane Austen. . . . [ Necessary Errors ] is a subtle and magnificent look at a kind of freedom that young, thinking Americans can't find by staying at home." -- Zeke Turner, Bookforum.com "Crain's stately, wry, and generous first novel breaks the mold. . . . The adventures of American Jacob Putnam in Czechoslovakia right after the Iron Curtain's fall recall Henry James as much as they do Ben Lerner." -- The Millions

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