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“This book is a speedball, with lines as beautifully sad and weary as John Berryman’s lines, and a premise as wild and lit as one of Philip K. Dick’s premises. Stevens is a writer who makes you want to slow down and read each sentence carefully, even as you want to race forward and see what happens.” — Benjamin Nugent

“One of my favorite writers has written another imaginative and attentive marvel. The Visitors is about business: the business of staying alive, the business of being with others, the business of staying sane, and the business of business.” — Rivka Galchen

“Jessi Jezewska Stevens’s frighteningly brilliant new novel The Visitors is both a bold reimagining of the recent past and an all-too-likely prophecy of what’s to come. Caustic, intimate, and consistently surprising, this novel cements Stevens’s place as one of the great chroniclers of our cruel and terrifying times.” — Andrew Martin

“Stevens’s intimacy with history borders on the telepathic. The Visitors is transcendent and astounding in every way.” — Michael Zapata

“An orgy of synaptic firing and flourish, The Visitors is a novel of longing, lostness, and late capitalism told with roving imagination and warmth.” — Tracy O’Neill

“The Visitors is such a unique gem of a novel—an intimate and affecting character study that is somehow also a DeLillo-esque container for diamond-sharp insights into big data, eco-terrorism, and the subprime mortgage crisis—that, like the garden gnome who haunts its protagonist, I’m half-convinced it couldn’t possibly exist. But it does, and it is dazzling, and Stevens’s readers are incredibly lucky to have it.” — Adam Wilson

“Stevens’s scalpel-fine prose—slicing with wit and pathos—belies the bewildering scope of The Visitors, which lays bare everything from the audacity of modern finance to the visceral costs of debt, love, and success. Every page beams with defiant jubilance and gut-punch insights.” — Jakob Guanzon