Wellness (Paperback)

American storytelling at its era-spanning best . . . An immersive, multi-layered portrait of a marriage, Nathan Hill’s follow-up to The Nix is a work of quiet genius . . . tackling a few big questions. What is truth? What is love? And therefore, inevitably, what is true love? - Observer

The incredible scope of this dazzlingly detailed state-of-the-nation satire almost defies description . . . Brilliant doesn’t begin to describe it, but I’ll say it anyway. - Daily Mail

Future historians, read this book . . . a crackling, witty chronicle of the world of the urban creative classes from the 1990s to now . . . I doubt I'll enjoy many books this year as much as Wellness. - The Times

A reader emerges from Hill’s world of Wellness with a keener eye for the tragicomic maladies of marriage, and a greater ear for the strangely affecting rhythms and algorithms of 21st-century life. - The Guardian

A bewitching, sophisticated book - Financial Times

Wellness is not some naive, crunchy-granola midlife-crisis novel . . . [it] is a clear-eyed look at the difficulty to live honestly in a world where authenticity may be the most challenged idea of all. - The Washington Post

A clever satire on America's self-deluding 'wellness' class . . . The variety and ingenuity of Hill's satirical prods – from real-estate development to Facebook algorithms – is impressive. - The Telegraph

This soulful satire takes aim at everything from gentrification to 'life hacks'. But it's also ambitious – and some nifty plotting by Hill reveals just how entangled contentment is with the stories we tell about ourselves. - Mail on Sunday

This brilliant novel will leave you thinking about the truth of your own life and the stories we tell ourselves and each other. - Oprah Winfrey

A compassionate satire of messy America - i newspaper

Hill's storytelling abilities are impressive . . . His novels vividly capture lonely Midwestern childhoods and real yearning for connection and understanding. - The New York Times

Wellness is a perfect novel for our age . . . It's beyond remarkable, both funny and heartbreaking, sometimes on the same page. - NPR

Hill is witty at exposing the ways intelligence and social background don’t necessarily make us more immune to manipulation. - Los Angeles Times

I read Hill’s novel with excitement and close to a sense of disbelief that there is still a writer out there who is intrigued by amplitude and by what fiction can do if pushed far enough. - Daphne Merkin, The Atlantic

Wellness brilliantly blends ideas about wellness culture, modern parenting, Internet algorithms, gentrification, and most importantly, love. - People

This new novel from the author of 2016 bestseller The Nix certainly packs a lot into its pages – parenting trends, the wellness industry, the meaning of art, conspiracy theories – all explored through scenes from the twenty-year marriage between Elizabeth and Jack, as the pair grow together and apart again. Meaty but very readable - Good Housekeeping

A hilarious and moving exploration of a modern marriage that astounds in its breadth and intimacy - Brit Bennett, author of The Mothers and The Vanishing Half

Nathan Hill has synthesized about a hundred years of that distinctly American delusion called self-improvement, and Wellness is the whip smart and gently comic result. - Joshua Ferris, author of Then We Came to the End

Wellness is one of the funniest, saddest, smartest novels I’ve ever read . . . It's a flat-out masterpiece. - Anthony Marra, author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

A beautiful, sometimes sad, sometimes satirical but most of all honest book about the many people a person becomes — the way a life, in time, inevitably upends itself. - Omar El Akkad, author of American War and What Strange Paradise

Ambitious, deeply engrossing, whip-smart and ultimately heartbreaking, Nathan Hill’s Wellness is all this and much more. - Richard Russo, author of the North Bath Trilogy

Hill blends a family chronicle with cultural critique in his expansive and surprisingly tender latest . . . This stunning novel of ideas never loses sight of its humanity. - Publishers Weekly

From the acclaimed author of The Nix comes another hugely ambitious novel, about how we change, grow and age, a story of marriage, middle age, our tech-obsessed health culture, and the bonds that keep people together. - Sheerluxe

Witty and thought-provoking - Glamour

Funny and heartbreaking and exasperating . . . a book to spend time in, that will keep you musing long after the last page - The New Zealand Herlad