A raw, chaotic collection of voices from the Midwest's backwoods, but obviously the work of a real writer: vivid, mad, and full of that desperation which roots in American outcasts. The characters, the kid telling the story, the Indian lover, Sheri, the machine and the terrible murder, were made immediate and memorable by their voices. Within hours we accepted it. How could we not have? It wasn't like anything or anyone else.

-Keith Botsford

I forget how I came across this book. My partner actually started reading it first. She's into the modernists and she said it reminded her of Willa Cather. I picked it up when she finished it and it made me think of Faulkner. We were both wrong. This book exists in its own realm. The language is a little difficult at first, but once you get into it, you realize you're thick in the middle of this beautiful, harsh Indiana landscape.

-Patrick Cottrell

It is astonishing, unlike anything I have ever read. It is at once sophisticated and acute, which I believe adds to its unique form.

-John Carey, FBA, FRSL, emeritus Merton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford