“Andrew Altschul is one of our great young writers, and Lady Lazarus is the proof.” — Andrew Sean Greer

Who is Calliope Bird Morath? Poet. Celebrity. Death Artist. Her father was an iconic punk-rocker whose suicide devastated the world. Her mother has spent a decade grieving and preparing Calliope for fame. Now, Calliope has grown up to be a star in her own right, trading on her family name, and exploring the mysteries that surround her father’s life and death…

“Astounding... You've never read anything quite like it.” — San Francisco magazine

“A sort of Gen X answer to Don DeLillo's boomer epic Underworld; it uses alt-rock as a springboard to address all of the human condition.” — Minneapolis Star Tribune

“Lady Lazarus is fun, sure, but Altschul is serious as a heart attack... A certain Seattle band is only the starting point of this smart, funny, breath-taking novel about celebrity, literature, and the elusive truth.” — Uptown

“Some of the smartest, [most] insightful, and flat-out funny writing about rock-and-roll celebrity since Neal Pollack's Never Mind the Pollacks.” — Blurt