What people are saying…

“Our Greatest Work is fast, strange, and darkly funny, exploring the claustrophobic intimacy of twinship in a sleazy, satirical, ruthless romp that made me laugh out loud. Sam and Joe Eichner twist the twin sibling rivalry trope into something new, interrogating what it means to be original when you share a past and a face. It pits brother against brother, making it impossible to pick sides—and confirms my worst fear: I can’t trust my identical twin.”

— Tegan Quin of Tegan and Sara

“Sam and Joe Eichner may have created a new type of fiction that explores not just the dynamic between identical siblings, but also family and the absurdity of the modern human condition, that pulls off being as entertaining as it is unique. Dare I call it twinfic? I guess I just did.”

—Jason Diamond, author of Kaplan’s Plot

“How would I describe Our Greatest Work? I might say it’s as if the Goncourt brothers, having mind-melded in the afterlife with Saul Bellow and Leonard Michaels, came back to earth as Joe and Sam Eichner, the twenty-first-century twins who wrote this vibrantly comic and ebullient novel in the spirit of those masters.”

—Zachary Lazar, author of The Apartment on Calle Uruguay

“Beyond the sheer joy of twins writing twins, Our Greatest Work is an inspired genre spoof made of sincere, awkward sex, uber-contemporary intertextual references, and brotherly Midwestern Jewish love. In this literary soap opera most romantic about artistic self-articulation, you encounter something like the voice of Lenny Bruce mashed together with Fitzgerald’s envies, expat Hemingway’s places, and Fast Times at Ridgemont High. This novel is less an entry into our recent years’ masculine literature of humiliation and more a story of exuberant, hubristic caring, told by a darkly comic brother whisperer. The jokiness might pull you in, but the after-party is even better: an extravagant, world-shaping tenderness.”

—Edie Meidav, author of Dogs of Cuba

“Our Greatest Work is a sly meditation on the ontological implications of being an identical twin. Edgy, wicked, and endlessly entertaining, Sam and Joe Eichner have crafted an engrossing and rollicking novel.”

—Sabina Murray, author of The Human Zoo