Review
This brilliant novel will leave you thinking about the truth of your own life and the stories we tell ourselves and each other. -- Oprah Winfrey
Wellness is not some naive, crunchy-granola midlife-crisis novel . . . [it] is a clear-eyed look at the difficulty to live honestly in a world where authenticity may be the most challenged idea of all. - The Washington Post
A hilarious and moving exploration of a modern marriage that astounds in its breadth and intimacy. -- Brit Bennett, author of The Mothers and The Vanishing Half
Nathan Hill has synthesized about a hundred years of that distinctly American delusion called self-improvement, and Wellness is the whip smart and gently comic result.' -- Joshua Ferris, author of Then We Came to the End
Wellness is one of the funniest, saddest, smartest novels I’ve ever read . . . It's a flat-out masterpiece. -- Anthony Marra, author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
Hill blends a family chronicle with cultural critique in his expansive and surprisingly tender latest . . . This stunning novel of ideas never loses sight of its humanity. - Publishers Weekly
A beautiful, sometimes sad, sometimes satirical but most of all honest book about the many people a person becomes-the way a life, in time, inevitably upends itself. -- Omar El Akkad, author of American War
Ambitious, deeply engrossing, whip-smart and ultimately heartbreaking, Nathan Hill’s Wellness is all this and much more. -- Richard Russo, author of the North Bath Trilogy
About the Author
Nathan Hill's short stories have appeared in many literary journals, including The Iowa Review, AGNI, The Gettysburg Review, and Fiction, where he was awarded the annual Fiction Prize. A native Iowan, he now lives with his wife in Naples, Florida. He is the author of The Nix and Wellness.