“Desire, conviction, commitment, connection — or simply need — can be a bridge politically, semantically, narratively and interpersonally … This is Moschovakis’ magic trick: by withholding cohesion, the reader must work to meet her in the middle (must, in other words, participate.) This is, of course, how poetry is made — and maybe, eventually, revolution. Experimental, brilliant, and deeply moving, Participation offers an anti-guide for the current moment: not teaching us how to live, but inviting us to try.” —Sadie Graham, The Toronto Star

“The novel’s true subject is not really work or capitalism or desire. Rather, it probes what it is to think about work and capitalism and desire—and love, and anger, and freedom, and care.” —Jess Bergman, Bookforum

“A brilliant and prescient story of an intellectual woman’s engagement with two book clubs amid climate catastrophe and political strife. . . . Moschovakis brings her fierce intelligence to bear in the structurally surprising and impeccably executed narrative. This is formal innovation at its finest.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

“Moschovakis’ take on what it means to form community in opposition to the expectations of hierarchy, anticipated outcome, or even narrative . . . feels timely, perhaps even prescient, in an era when the only thing that seems constant is the incontrovertible need for change. Densely intellectual, the novel forces an alert reader to reconsider what it means to participate in the very act of reading.” —Kirkus

“A stunning, lyrical novel [that] invokes poetic forms and devices to propel the reader through its brief, titled sections that dazzle and spark deep contemplation.” —Gage Saylor, Gasher