This propulsive and furious book is as fun to read as it is relentless and unsparing. Deranged and faltering America, Jonathan Dee has your number' Joshua Ferris, author of The Dinner Party 'The American novelist who has his finger on the pulse'Mark Lawson 'It's in the methodical unpacking of how a human being might effectively cease to exist without actually committing suicide that Sugar Street is at its most enthralling' New York Times Book Review'An energetic character study of a white man determined to escape from his life . . . Dee's work grapples intriguingly with the narrator's liberal myopia. It stands as a showcase of Dee's masterly prose'Publishers Weekly