Bold and darkly comic . . . the novel . . . announces Bansinath . . . as a genuine and offbeat talent . . .she's a great noticer, even if the thing noticed is merely the glory of, let's say, a turkey hoagie from Wawa. But she's especially attuned to disorder and rot and chaos. Like the writers Ottessa Moshfegh and Tony Tulathimutte, she is dialed in to the aesthetics of disgust.

Dwight Garner, the New York Times

Bansinath is an impressive storyteller . . . Readers will be engrossed by this clear-eyed and explosive tale.

Publishers Weekly, starred review

This darkly funny satire threaded with a subtle murder mystery is thoughtful and unflinching . . . Bansinath's frank and sardonic insights into immigrant experiences within the walls of an insular community are complexly entertaining.

Booklist

Men Like Ours is a wonderful debut, a witty narrative following an amateur murder investigation in a South Asian enclave in New Jersey. On Willow Road, a group of women band together to solve the murder of a friend, and wade into a world of generational feuds, friendly backstabbings, and, possibly, an even deeper sense of community. Possibly.

Crimereads, "Most Anticipated"

Bindu Bansinath has written the most promising debut I've read in decades. With humor dryer than an Englishman's martini and darker than a moonless night, she delivers a pitch perfect howl against the patriarchy, alongside the portrait of a community in crisis as vivid and complicated as anything out of Morrison or Naipaul.

Gary Shteyngart, New York Times bestselling author of OUR COUNTRY FRIENDS

Men Like Ours is a wholly unpredictable ride, brimming with sharp characters I felt I knew intimately. These women, tucked within their deceptively quiet lives, are many things-surprising, acerbic, dramatic, humorous, exasperating, tragic, but each is ultimately impossible to ignore.

Parini Shroff, author of THE BANDIT QUEENS