"After twenty-five years, Antrim returns to fiction--or does he? My Eliot is a furiously funny novel masquerading as sad-sack memoir disguised as oedipally driven lit crit. A stoner Metamorphosis , full of cool animals, a do-it-yourself lumber mill, and mind-altering root vegetables." --Ed Park, author of Same Bed Different Dreams "Donald Antrim is a master of contemporary fiction and the most entertaining writer in America. With My Eliot , he has produced his best book yet--a warm, wild, intelligent excursion into the heart of one family and the inner life of literature. I was amazed." --Andrew O'Hagan, author of Mayflies and Caledonian Road "It has been a quarter-century since the last time a Donald Antrim novel was published. The fact took me by surprise, because of how present the first three stay in my head. To have a new Antrim novel enter the world is like having a comet reappear.

It marks the arrival of an otherworldly sensibility. What adjectives can a person even throw at My Eliot ? Bizarre, hilarious, heartbreaking, elegant--in a word, Antrimian." --John Jeremiah Sullivan, author of Pulphead "Antrim's work has always been a profound testament to the sovereignty of the imagination and its inseparable relationship with the 'real.' Perhaps one of the most sorely missed novelists of the last couple of decades for his humanity, intelligence, and deceptive lightness of touch. My Eliot made me laugh, made me cry, made me wish I had my own enchanted parsnip." --Luke Kennard, author of The Book of Jonah "A book of pure colors and laminated realities that crack and change as Antrim perfectly renders how restless it is to live in mourning, how devoted we can be to heartbreak, and how human it is to want to be an animal . They say it's been a twenty-year wait for this novel, but I've been waiting twice that time and more for Donald Antrim. Thank God there are still good things in this world if you stick around.

" --Ben Pester, author of The Expansion Project.