"The Colorist is lush, dense; a book of dreamlike intensity, one where we must listen for the echoes to understand the patterns. Check it out. Really worthwhile/highly recommended."
David Ulin, The Los Angeles Reader
"Among the most accomplished new fiction..."
Caryn James, The New York Times
"Now that we’re in the midst of a renaissance of interest in cartoons and comics, here’s a story set in the comic book industry, complete with workaday details. But The Colorist aims more to confound clichés than to copy them. The novel is a complex of refracted story lines that rewrite and revise the tales of a few "discontinued" characters. The Colorist should be read for Ms. Daitch’s drop dead writing style and the pleasure of joining her literary shell game."
Kate Lynch, The New York Times
"An observant eye... Her vision of New York is one of a cartoon city where anything is possible, where real-life adventures resemble the antic happenings of a comic strip."
Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
"The Colorist is Susan Daitch’s breathtaking second novel, is more than just another postmodern story. Reading it is like unwrapping a stack of presents from someone witty and wise who knew just what you wanted. Daitch’s sentences are punchy, packing a thwack and kaboom on the grand scale of a Lichtenstein canvas. Daitch plays with layers of language as she does with layers of plot, elegantly turning linguistic questions into mild farce."
Elizabeth Judd, Village Voice Literary Supplement
"This novel is fresh, innovated and as animated as the comic frames the narrator colors."
Newsday
"high marks for originality"
The Boston Globe
