[A] sharp, inventive and compassionate novel . . . to be savored and heeded.

San Francisco Chronicle

Mr. Thier's dizzying time-travels will inevitably call to mind David Mitchell's “Cloud Atlas,” and the danger of such books is that they tend to grow solemn and sanctimonious as they peer into the future. Happily, “Mr. Eternity” remains playful even as it relates catastrophe.

The Wall Street Journal

With symbolism and analogy, surrealism and fantasy, Thier deftly reflects on and explores the human condition through 'the lavender light and sweet scented dust of history.' Erudite. Imaginative. A work to be read slowly and savored.

starred review, Kirkus Reviews

Thier uses his deathless protagonist to chart the rise and fall of the American empire, and also those certainties--love, trade--that afflict every age . . . The moral imagination behind Defoe's adventures rivals that of his namesake, begging comparison to the best literature has to offer.

Publishers Weekly

Thier's story lines entwine in Faulknerian brilliance . . . An enchanting, humorous, and visionary experience.

Booklist

Only a writer as wickedly smart as Aaron Thier would think to write such a twisted and wild story about Florida and climate change and time-battered Daniel Defoe; only Aaron Thier could pull it all off with such aplomb and in such gleeful and spiny language. Mr. Eternity will be sizzling in my brain for a long time.

Lauren Groff, author of FATES AND FURIES