The Regional Office Is Under Attack!

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The Regional Office is Under Attack! is an entertaining and satisfying novel. Like the best of the stories it satirizes so gently, it's rollicking good fun on the surface, action-packed and shiny in all the right places; underneath that surface, though, it's thoughtful and well considered. Gonzales has created a superheroic fighting force of the kind we've grown so used to through constant exposure to the Avengers and various iterations of the X-Men, and then he has turned out their pockets and flipped open their diaries. - New York Times Book Review [H]ighly entertaining... Wonderfully strange and fun, Gonzales' novel follows both the women attacking and defending the Regional Office and how their lives intersect. - Buzzfeed A tour-de-force... [R]epurposes the devices of a genre specializing in fantasies of mastery into a portrait of chastened adults moving through a world where mastery eludes us all... [W]hat binds the whole thing together is a persistent, self- contradictory human desire to both be extraordinary and to fit in, finally, somewhere. The Regional Office Is Under Attack! sneaks up on you. It starts out looking like a heist yarn intertwined with a couple of origin stories, but it keeps coming back to the stuff people devour superhero comics and spy thrillers to escape: isolation, confusion, triviality, moral doubt. - Laura Miller , Slate A hugely entertaining read. - Chicago Tribune Like the writers he is compared to, Gonzales's stories' fantastic premises are always anchored in real-world conflicts that hold universal familiarity. The Regional Office is Under Attack! , ...carries some of his stories' thematic arsenal into a book length narrative... The story nods to tons of tropes-from Kill Bill and Charlie's Angels to Blade Runner and The Karate Kid -but it frequently subverts those tropes and uses them to flesh out characters that dazzle. - The Rumpus The Regional Office really IS under attack! This is not metaphor! It is a wry and propulsive work of inventive fiction by a terrific young writer! Read it! - Jess Walter , New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins Delightfully weird, weirdly delightful! Manuel Gonzales clearly has a labyrinth of a brain--all stuffed with monsters, trapdoors, and complicated heroes. Sign me up as a member of the fan club, please. - Kelly Link , author of Get in Trouble and Magic for Beginners This book is a winged creation, and absolutely marvelous. Gonzales keeps turning the kaleidoscope to reveal the strangest, darkest, and most beautiful dimensions of human love, and the conversion of mechanical fury into living strength. - Karen Russell , author of Swamplandia! The Regional Office, a shadowy organization of spooky oracles and superpowered middle management misfits, isn't the only thing under attack in this tremendous debut novel. With exuberant prose and a corkscrew plot, Manuel Gonzales vanquishes artistic orthodoxies, tiresome genre boundaries and every humdrum narrative convention in sight, leaving in his wake a riveting story of secrets, betrayals, and vengeance! -Claire Vaye Watkins , author of Battleborn and Gold Fame Citrus Wild, visionary, ablaze with heart and riot, The Regional Office Is Under Attack! is unforgettable-an epic love story that confronts our future with a howl and fireworks. - Paul Yoon , author of Snow Hunters The Regional Office is Under Attack! is wickedly subversive, suspenseful, and thoughtful, all at once-but most of all, it's just fun to read, from the first sentence to the last. Put down your expectations and pick up this book. It'll hit you like a lightning bolt. - Jess Row , author of Your Face in Mine A ridiculously fun story about love, as well as time and timing, both good and bad. And because of that, it's also timely. The ending-with its deft glimpse at a hypothetical future-is alone worth the wild ride. - Hannah Pittard , author of The Fates Will Find Their