Review by David Plick
It took me a little under three minutes to find The Tiger’s Wife in my local bookstore. I had to look beyond that table in front, the one you practically run into if you’re not paying attention, which featured Janet Jackson’s memoir, Donald Rumsfeld’s, I Swear I’m Not the World’s Biggest A-hole, several hardcover bestsellers, and one book of literary fiction, Karen Russell’s Swamplandia!, to the column directly behind it, where Obreht, at the tender age of twenty-five, the youngest on The New Yorker’s illustrious “20 Under 40″, had her first novel and it’s golden
