"Child boss is a riveting and piercingly honest book that reminds us, with so much sweetness and bitterness, of the beauty and toil of a child's world truncated by the brutal responsibility of adulthood. Felsher has written a truly resonant and remarkable book. This book sings, troubles the water of desire and dreams. A gift of a read!” — Saddiq Dzukogi, Author of Bakandamiya: An Elegy"

“…Set in a world where transaction and competition supersede connection and cooperation, Child Boss investigates the boundaries of debt and forgiveness, of public and private life, and offers a scathing account of the ways masculinity shapes identity under late capitalism. Propelled forward by Felsher’s lucid, precise prose, this is as tender a book as it is an unflinching and audacious one, blending humour, pathos and strangeness in ways that surprise, subvert, upend, transgress. A striking, memorable, and incisive book.” — Lisa Richter, Author of Nautilus and Bone, winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Poetry 

"Child Boss is a wildly playful meditation on childhood, sports, and masculinity. It's also a serious interrogation of late capitalism. Felsher's writing is fresh and inventive, a delight to read, for both its small surprises and full revelations. A remarkable debut, Child Boss recalls the dark absurdity in Robert Walser's fictions, but Felsher's vision is entirely his own.” — René Steinke, Author of Holy Skirts & Friendswood

“To be a baller is to dwell in that middle space between failures and dreams.” — Mona Kareem, Author of I Will Not Fold These Maps

“Felsher's honesty is grotesque and wonderful, the narrative driving and hilarious. The pain of adolescent boyhood is laid bare, with a blast radius that reaches far and wide, and will have the reader wincing and laughing. Highly enjoyable, unputdownable, emotional, and funny.” — Donna Freitas, Author of Her One Regret and The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano.

“This is a book about manhood and fireworks. Steeped in what Cynthia Cruz calls “the melancholia of class,” Felsher’s treatment of work, “workers and those for whom workers work,” does not shy away from the humiliation of precarity. Child Boss brilliantly renders the fantasies that fuel a boy’s full participation in work beginning at twelve, and is flecked with moments when people (and their machines) are pushed beyond their measurements. This book does the same.” — Julia Guez, Author of The Certain Body   

"Sharp and subversive, Child Boss transforms the sweetness of adolescent hustle into a witty critique of labor and debt. With biting humor and philosophical poise, Felsher reveals the comedy and precarity at the heart of growing up on the margins of privilege and power.” — Elton Uliana, Literary Critic and Translator, University College London