No wonder this debut is getting a 200,000-copy first printing.
Promises to be one of the best debuts of the year.… Echoes of Gillian Flynn and Patricia Highsmith in this tightly wound, exotic story.Īlthough some of the plot developments are easy to predict, the novel is narrated persuasively in alternating chapters…, and Mangan’s portrayal of Tangier is electric.… sharp novel.Ītmospheric enough to be a movie? You bet George Clooney's Smokehouse Pictures bought the film rights, with Scarlett Johansson set to star. The thriller that everyone will be talking about.… One of those sinuous, Hitchcockian tales that disorients in the best way.… Hypnotic. The amoral, manipulative presence of Patricia Highsmith’s Tom Ripley hovers over Tangerine.… An assured and atmospheric debut. Unbelievably tense, incredibly smart.… Mangan full-speeds up to her shocking finale, twisting the plot with reveals you never see coming.… writing is so accomplished, so full of surprises and beauty, that you’d swear she was a seasoned pro.Ī juicy melodrama cast against the sultry, stylish imagery of North Africa in the fifties.… endearing and even impressive in the force of its determination to conjure a life more exciting than most.… Just the ticket. Rich in dread, the foreboding positively drips from every page. The lying, the cunning, and the duplicity is so very mannered that it’s chilling. But caveat lector: Tangerine, like its namesake fruit, can be both bracing and bitter. The reader’s sympathy switches back and forth between Lucy and Alice as their Moroccan reunion moves inexorably toward another fatal crossroads. Jennifer Reese - New York Times Book Review She mostly succeeds… knows all the notes to hit to create lush, sinister atmosphere and to prolong suspense… Tangerine …a satisfying, juicy thriller. It's as if Mangan couldn't decide whether to write a homage to Donna Tartt's The Secret History or a sun-drenched novel of dissolute Westerners abroad in the tradition of Patricia Highsmith and Paul Bowles, so she tried to do both.
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