The Uproar

"A great, galloping read, pointed and provocative; the kind of book you might call a good bad time."—New York Times Book Review

"What happens when everything you believe about yourself is challenged by a series of events seemingly out of your control?...There is so much stress and discomfort in this book, which is also its strength, making the reader complicit in assumptions before blowing them out of the water. It would make a great book discussion book."—Booklist

"Karim Dimechkie’s unbearably tense (yet frequently very funny) second novel is the story of a white Brooklyn social worker—a good man, deeply invested in the idea of his own goodness—and the incident that blows his life apart...A brilliant, shapeshifting, deeply insightful examination of race and class, marriage and modern masculinity."—Lit Hub

"A white New York City social worker confronts the limits of his altruism in this tense offering from Dimechkie...Dimechkie’s morality tale asks tough questions about the role of self-interest in conflicts fueled by class and race divisions. It’s sure to start conversations."—Publishers Weekly

"Tense, immersive, and provocative. The Uproar is at once a psychological drama and a bracing look at class, race, power, and marriage. Once you start reading, you won't want to stop for breath until the end."—Flynn Berry, author of Northern Spy

"The Uproar is at times hilarious, wise, insightful, and brave. It is at all times a pleasure."—Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Everything Is Illuminated

"The Uproar is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the moment we live in now. Dimechkie drew me in with the twist-and-turns of this brilliantly plotted novel and kept me reading with his funny, complicated, and precisely drawn characters. By the end of the novel, I wasn't just moved by what happens to these characters—I was thinking more critically and deeply about my own morals and the type of person I want to be in the world. This book will stay with me."—Philipp Meyer, author of The Son

"A raw, tensely plotted, profound high-wire act of a book. Dimechkie puts his readers through the wringer, making us at once companions, critics, and accomplices on Sharif Safadi's ride of wild and gutting twists and turns."—Téa Obreht, author of The Tiger’s Wife

“A tour de farce! This propulsive Brooklyn comedy of manners goes off the rails like a rogue F Train.”