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To judge from a profile that ran in the New Yorker last year, as well as reviews of her novels Mislaid and, now, Nicotine, Zink’s fiction has a jolting, disorienting effect on many readers.

From Slate • Oct. 24, 2016

The first 30 pages or so of Nicotine were less thrilling to me than the beginning of Mislaid.

From Slate • Oct. 24, 2016

The writer Emily Gould quipped on Twitter: “Hats off to @eccobooks; this Rachel Dolezal thing is genius viral marketing for Mislaid by Nell Zink.”

From New York Times • Jun. 16, 2015

Mislaid property, Orth says, is supposed to be safeguarded by whoever owns the property where it was mislaid until someone with a better claim, like the bank customer, comes back.

From Time • Feb. 27, 2014

Mislaid it, you know, or lost it, one or the other, I don't know which,—but, anyway, I reckon it won't never be found.

From The Old Tobacco Shop A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure by Bowen, William