The Wall Street Journal wrote last week, “Union Atlantic is the first serious fictional portrait of the bailout era — in which the unbridled risk-taking of our banking institutions bumped up against powerful government officials trying to keep the system afloat. Decades from now, this fine novel will help readers understand the period we’ve just been through.” The New York Times Book Review agreed. “The eerie overlap of Haslett’s narrative with current events in the American economy,” wrote Liesl Schillinger, “gives Union Atlantic unusual impact.”

“The first great novel of the new century. It’s big and ambitious, like novels used to be. It’s about us, now. All of us.” —Esquire

Adam Haslett’s “intensely atmospheric, psychedelically tinged debut novel” (Elle) is on sale today! Written over the course of five years and finished the week that Lehman Brothers’ collapse set off the Wall Street panic of 2008, it portrays the gilded age of the first decade of the 21st century and the conflicts over class, corporate power, and personal identity that shape contemporary life.

If you haven’t read New York Magazine’s profile of Adam Haslett, whose forthcoming debut novel foretold our current financial disaster, it’s time to get acquainted with the virtuoso author. The media will be buzzing next Tuesday when Union Atlantic hits bookshelves. An early review in Bookslut claims, “Haslett is a major talent. Union Atlantic should cement his reputation as one of America’s great young authors — there aren’t many writers this original, and this intelligent, both intellectually and emotionally, around these days. It’s been years since a novel has captured the zeitgeist of contemporary America this well; it’s been years since a new author has convinced us, with just two books, that there might be nothing he can’t do.”