Praise for The Instructions

"A hysterical, heartfelt journey of self-discovery… A book that moves beyond completely transparent influences to reach its own distinct, new, great height."
—Foster Kamer, Village Voice

"Evocative of David Foster Wallace… full of death-defying sentences, manic wit, exciting provocations and simple human warmth."
—Julia Holmes, Rolling Stone

"After The Instructions challenges, charms and betrays you, it might just seduce your soul.… The Instructions is disturbing and romantic and ultimately, heartbreaking, and its questions are not easily parsed, even by Gurion's analytic mind. They are the nagging doubts of our own goodness and faith. But it's worth sticking with this author's debut: This is a wunderkind's master class.… An incredible creation of fiction."
—Katie Moulton, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"Levin’s mammoth, riotous, Talmudic, impossibly excessive yet brilliant, mesmerizing, warmhearted, and hilarious work of chutzpah takes place over four feverish days but encompasses the whole of Israel’s battle for existence and the Jewish quest for home and peace."
—Donna Seaman, Booklist

"The Instructions is in fact a vital work of—no getting around it—American Jewish literature because it imagines that the genre is indeed through and asks what can be written in its place."
—Marissa Bostroff, Tablet magazine