"Tender, wry and entertaining. . . . Englander's trademark humor is on display, but most striking and moving about kaddish.com is the unabashed sweetness of a son's longing for a father." --The New York Times Book Review

"Satirical, inventive, and brimming with gallows humor, this novel's whip-smart look at the clash of religious and secular worlds showcases Englander at his best." --Esquire

"Ingenious." --Houston Chronicle

"A wonderfully nimble performance. . . . kaddish.com smuggles profound moral questions under the dress of its light and diverting story." --The Wall Street Journal

"[A] poignant coming-to-understanding about grief, the meaning of tradition, and love between fathers and sons." --Minneapolis Star Tribune

"[A] delight of a novel. . . . A marvelous comic fable. . . . Englander's expansive imagination is such that he can convincingly write the part of a secular Jewish hipster and a born-again Jew - and do it with the Yiddish inflections of a Borscht Belt comedian." --Associated Press

"A rollicking, generous-hearted tale of faith, identity and family. . . . Englander's best novel so far." --Financial Times

"Tantalizing. . . . Englander's prose is always sprightly. He makes it easy to turn the page." --The Forward

"With his usual wit and irreverence . . . Nathan Englander spins out a tale. . . . There's still a good deal of tongue-in-cheek humor in the story that follows . . . but it's also an earnest look at belief, at ritual, at mourning, and at family ties." --Vanity Fair

"kaddish.com is funny but also profound, a saga of spiritual transformation. . . . Amid the chaos in which we all live nowadays, [the novel] is a bright light in a dark world." --Jewish Journal

"[There is] a hum of suspense behind this slim tale that belies its subject." --Vulture

"Simultaneously humorous and deeply moving. . . . [An] excellent comic dissection of Jewish-American life. . . . This novel reads like Chaim Potok filtered through the sensibility of Mel Brooks." --Publishers Weekly

"Humorous and moving. . . . Englander is a master at displaying the way a single decision, made in a private moment, can stay with us for the rest of our lives and haunt our future." --Bookforum

"Englander is mischievously hilarious, nightmarish, suspenseful, inquisitive, and deliriously tender in this concentrated tale of tradition and improvisation, faith and love." --Booklist

"Part fable, part magic realism, part mystery, deeply touching, occasionally weird, almost always funny." --Jewish Standard