The Laments is a fine novel, about family, migration, identity, and the struggle to find and hold on to it. It is also hugely entertaining and very, very funny.
Roddy Doyle, author of The Barrytown Trilogy

A vital international journey through the vicissitudes of family life. This story, centering on the timeless theme of a child swapped at birth, is immensely readable, funny, and touching a complete joy.
Elizabeth Strout, author of Amy and Isabelle

George Hagen's highly entertaining debut novel features an irresistibly headstrong family, a global sweep, and not only a sense of loss and displacement that's perfectly in tune with the world we live in but also a full measure of resilient humanity.
Gary Shteyngart, author of The Russian Debutante's Handbook