"The Futility Experts starts with a bang and only gets more explosive from there, laughs and satisfying plot twists, a kooky cast, including dogs that only a mother could love. I flipped pages till the night was dawn, dying to figure out how Margaret Broucek would bring all the threads together. A self-invented sniper, a Sasquatch-loving scientist, a raucous neighbor (complete with contested real estate), a struggling family man, where's it all going to end? In a great reading experience, that's where, and an auspicious debut for this talented new voice."

~ Bill Roorbach, author of Life Among Giants, The Remedy for Love, and The Girl of the Lake

“Margaret Broucek's The Futility Experts makes hilarious art out of disaster. The characters herein might be failures, but they are inspired failures, and Broucek treats them so humanely that the reader can't help but root for them. An extravagantly comic, strangely moving novel. I loved it.”

~ Brock Clarke, author of An Arsonist's Guide to Writer's Homes in New England

"Broucek's prose is stunning. Terrific turns of phrase, technicolor images, and a linguistic sensibility left-of-center enough to please and amuse without ever becoming gaudy or otherwise drawing undue attention to itself."

~ Ron Currie, Jr., author of The One-Eyed Man, God Is Dead

What Kris Kristofferson said when he discovered John Prine is what comic writers are going to say about Margaret Broucek - "She’s so good that we’ll have to break her thumbs."

--David Carkeet, author of The Full Catastrophe