"Fountain turns this scathing satire to the most relevant story of our time: the twists and turns of American democracy as it hurtles toward authoritarianism." --LitHub

"Fiction is truer than real life in Rasputin Swims the Potomac, an audacious, rip-roaring, and terrifying good time. Don't read ABOUT this book--it will sound too crazy! Dive in and see for yourself... Ben Fountain is a prophet, comic genius and a master storyteller." --Maria Semple, bestselling author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette and Go Gentle

"Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk" is a masterpiece of satire, and somehow, he's managed to do it again.... Fountain pulls it off with his gleefully absurd sense of humor." --The L.A. Times

"[A] brilliant satire.... More than a laugh riot, this offers an unflinching view at the bottomless depths opened by a president 'whose ego has wormholes Freud never dreamt of.' It's a mordant and chilling portrait of a national hellscape." --Publishers Weekly

"[RASPUTIN SWIMS THE POTOMAC is] a welcome bolt of brilliantly zany fantasia for our grim and dour times.... Fountain's sweet spot is the intersection between reality TV and reality, an intellectual and comedic playground which extends here to the world of wrestling.... Fountain goes on to have about as much fun as you can have with the 26 letters of the alphabet. A comic masterpiece. The current administration is finally getting the book it deserves." --Kirkus (starred review)

"A withering satire...timely and terrifying, Fountain's version of the current and potentially future state of American politics and culture is simultaneously wild and absurd yet eerily plausible." --Booklist (starred review)

"If anyone can capture the stupefying stupidity of today's politics, Fountain can." --Publisher's Weekly

"Ben Fountain's near-future political satire imagines a redacted but obvious president angling for a third term amid a tsunami of mass public weeping. Through Clarence, a wry journalist; Faith, a young communications aide; and Rasputin, a wrestler turned running mate, the novel skewers reality TV, politics and the media."
--Newsday