Penguin Books</br></br>Product Description</br></br><p><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b>Winner of the American Academy of Arts & Letters Rosenthal Family Foundation Award</b><br><br>Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Award</b><br>National Book Award <b><b><b><b><b><b>Finalist<br><b>NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award Finalist</b></b></b></b></b></b></b><br></b>One of the?<i>New York Times?Book Review</i><b>s Ten Best Books of the Year</b><br>A <i>Washington Post</i> Notable Fiction Book of 2016</b></b><br>Named a Best Book of 2016 by:?<i>Buzzfeed?Esquire</i>?<b><i>New York</i> magazine?</b><i>The Huffington Post</i> <i>The Guardian</i>?<i>The AV Club</i> <i>The Fader</i>?<i>Redbook</i>?<i>Electric Literature</i> <i>Book Riot</i> <i>Bustle</i> <i>Good magazine</i>?<i>PureWow</i> and <i>PopSugar</i></b><br><b><b><b><b><b>Longlisted for?</b></b></b>the FT/Oppenheimer Emerging Voices Award</b></b></b><br><br>Wonderful. . . . Smart devastating unpredictable and enviably adept in its handling of tragedy and its fallout. If you enjoy novels that happily disrupt traditional narrativesabout grief death violence politicsI suggest you go out and buy this one. Post haste.?<b>Fiona Maazel?<i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b><br><br>Brilliant. . . . Mr. Mahajans writing is acrid and bracing tightly packed with dissonant imagery. . . . <i>The Association of Small Bombs</i> is not the first novel about the aftermath of a terrorist attack?? but it is the finest I??ve read at capturing the seduction and force of the murderous?? annihilating illogic that increasingly consumes the globe.?? <b><b>?</b></b>Sam Sacks?? <i>The Wall Street Journal<br><br></i>??[Mahajan??s] eagerness to go at the bomb from every angle suggests a voracious approach to fiction-making?? a daring imaginative promiscuity that moves beyond the scope of his first?? very good novel?? <i>Family Planning</i>.?? <b><b><b>?</b></b></b><i><i>Th