So many young writers have been describes as ‘Salingeresque’ that it’s a shock to come across one who actually fits the bill. – Tom Perotta

Sharipo is a terrific writer with an unerring sense of how confusing it is to be 15- years-old.

–The New York Times Book Review (Editors Choice)

Inventive…Henry’s antics and observations are endearingly offbeat… Shapiro serves up some wise, lovely characterizations. – Publishers Weekly

Dana Adan Sahpiro doesn’t duck the uncomfortable…An eccentrically likable teenager shows up dead on the first page of this perversely funny book. – New York Daily News.

Salinger, schamalinger! Burgeoning comparisons notwithstanding, you could black out every other paragraph in The Every Boy and it would still out charm Catcher in the Rye. Outperform it, too. Icon magazine co-founder and former Spin senior editor Dana Adam Shapiro’s debut novel does triple duty as mystery, exploration of love, and aborted coming-of-age story.

— Time Out: New York

With skillfully rendered portraits of quirky people who take themselves too seriously, the author erects a world of humorous eccentricity and personal obsession. – Library Journal

True to his surname, Henry’s confessions record his conflicted progress through the stations of adolescence, the agonies of all young people suffer as they struggle with the Big Issues of growing up: how to fit in without relinquishing the right to be different…Fortunately, Shapiro writes with equally odd-angled insight about adults. The awkward, touching interplay between Henry’s estranged parents and between his grandmother and her sassy caretaker suggest that the author is more than ready to try to deep end of the pool.— The Boston Globe  

This is a brilliant novel by a extraordinarily talented writer… Anyone who reads it with care will see immediately that it isn’t Salinger or Roth or anyone else. It is Shapiro, a wonderful, new, surprising talent, whose writing is already elegantly refined. – Michael Payne, author of Reading Theory : An Introduction to Lacan, Derrida and Kristeva.

Henry and his surreal world is not just a platform for Shapiro to demonstrate his wit and inventiveness; there is no hint of condescension or self-indulgence in his prose…Shapiro asks readers to enter Henry’s world with the wide- eyed hunger for extraordinary that he as a writer and Henry as a character both display- to soak up life’s beautiful peculiarities. It may take a leap of faith on our part to allow ourselves to fall for this novel’s charms,  but in the end it is a vital risk to take. –Bookrepoter.com

Author/Illustrator Bio:

Dana Adam Shapiro produced and co-directed MURDERBALL, the Academy Award nominated documentary about quadriplegic rugby players. Shapiro is a founder of ICON Magazine, a former senior editor at SPIN, and a contributor to the NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE and other publications. With Plan B Entertainment, he is set to write and direct a movie based on his first novel, THE EVERY BOY.