Readers and reviewers write:
--It’s a fable. It’s a farce. It’s a world-situation tragicomedy and a cartoon family romance. It’s all about the end of the world… how sweet and sad and scary, and how wonderfully well-done. This combination of inspired tenderness and brilliant technique. . . reads as though it were written by a very witty angel. The Boston Herald
--I’ve enjoyed reading it enormously, but also found the atmosphere of the book resonated with me very strongly. The mixture of menace and reassurance felt appropriate for the strange times we’re living through. Sam
--Thoroughly engaging. . . introduces an unmistakably gifted new voice in command of stylistic finesse, lively fancy and infectious buoyancy. Publisher’s Weekly
--Juggles big, weighty themes. .. . with remarkable agility and surprising strength. . . . Kramer is an entertainer with both courage and conviction. She is a tough act to follow, for herself and other novelists as well. The Los Angeles Times Book Review
--Your Handbook for Visitors from Outer Space. . . remains one of my favorite books; very much part of my mental furniture. Funny, sad and poignant. David
--This is the most bizarre book you'll ever love. If you remember what the world was like when we lived with the real possibility of nuclear annihilation you'll understand the subtext of this suburban world. If you like Don DeLillo or Thomas Pynchon you'll like Kathryn Kramer. She's that smart, her language is that carefully crafted. She uses the frivolous and trivial to smack you between the eyes. Declan
--The work of a powerful imagination. . . A rarity among first novels, a rich, multi-layered construct. Kathryn Kramer is a writer to be watched. . . I wouldn’t doubt that she has secret meetings with visitors from outer space, during which she tells them exactly what all our lives are like. The Houston Chronicle
--Kramer’s strange and wonderful first novel dances on the edge of apocalypse… Death is in the air, “a smell of cold mussel shells and seaweed,” but the novel explodes with life…. I don’t know if Kramer’s novel will prove useful to extraterrestrials, but I recommend it to everyone else.” New York Times Book Review