Sicily, small bookstores across the West and most compellingly, her Midwestern youth." - Chicago Tribune
"[Attenberg's] writing...shimmers with keen pragmatic observations as well as deeply perceptible humane empathy . . . I Came All This Way to Meet You is a book about the making of a writer in the best possible way - accessible, funny, illuminating. It's a book about kindness and grief, joy and forgiveness, failures, challenges, mistakes, and hope. It's also a terrific ode to good art and true friendship." - Boston Globe
"[Attenberg] brings to the subject her gifts as a novelist: a fierce impulse toward honesty, a companionably cranky voice and an interest in the complicated, bobbing and weaving ways in which people navigate their desires. . . . Her voice and her frankness lead the way through what can sometimes feel like a maze - but the satisfactions are thick on the ground, and we follow. And when we are finished, we hold in our hands the promised ending, the book itself." - Claire Dederer, New York Times Book Review (Editor's Choice)
"Attenberg's willingness to engage with the vulnerability that comes with leading a creative life . . . is so remarkable. She is refreshingly candid about what it really means to be a writer and to believe in a calling." - Time (A Must Read Book of 2022)
