Amazon.ca Best Books: Editors' Picks, 2012, Commended, People Park.
Amazon.ca First Novel Award, 2012, Short-listed, People Park.
The novel is a cacophony of comedy and heartbreak, magical realism and satiric wit, made melodically whole through Malla’s deft prose.
- Briarpatch Magazine
People Park is reminiscent of Gary Shteyngart or George Saunders ... vividly imagined ...
- Globe and Mail
People Park is an ambitious and complex novel, impressively rendered and fantastic to read.
- National Post
... an imaginative feat ...
- Georgia Straight
When I got to the last page, I wanted to flip the thing over and start right back at the beginning. I can’t think of a better testament to the pleasure of reading a novel.
- AV Club
People Park is a zany and entertaining yarn ... more than a worthy followup to The Withdrawal Method; it's a merry microcosm.
- Winnipeg Free Press
[People Park] unfolds a unique and fully realized fictional universe in which the author explores themes of displacement, isolation, and reunification with flashes of dark humour.
- Quill and Quire
... every sentence [is] a thrill ... [in People Park] we get a frightening picture of ourselves.
- Montreal Gazette
Written in breathless prose, it’s oddball fun, and Malla proves himself as a writer who never takes the easy way out.
- National Post