"Adam Thirlwell has always been an intricate stylist of guises and tricks, and suddenly, in Inheritance, that’s all gone and he is naked before God, utterly exposed. The life of this refined dreamer, by which I mean the real Adam Thirlwell, seems to have exploded. In the fallout, and with incredible charm and control, he’s made riveting fiction."
—Rachel Kushner, author of Creation Lake and The Flamethrowers

"Adam Thirlwell's new novel is shocking and tender. It displays rare wisdom and vulnerability. What emerges from this story of treachery and duplicity is not only a broken family but the portrait of the artist as a loving husband and father, a loyal and loving son, and a novelist who writes beautifully."
—Colm Toibin, author of Brooklyn and Long Island 

"Adam Thirlwell has written the story of his suffering body. He has also written the story of his suffering family. And he has seen that both are in fact the same, which he tells in an audacious and searing book." 
—Emmanuel Carrère, author of The Adversary

"INHERITANCE shows this brilliant writer transformed. This is autofiction at once exhilaratingly honest and tender: a story of illness, death and family – and proof that pain can be turned into radiant fiction." 
—Daniel Kehlmann, author of Measuring the World