"As mythic and miraculous as Faulkner and Márquez. Amazingly original, and a sublime delight for the lucky readers who get their hands on it. A novel so fine you don't want it to ever end. I haven't read a novel this good since Plainsong."

—Larry Brown, author of Father and Son and Fay

"Sort of a calm wail. Each page a deep pleasure. A book at life's pace yet somehow without any of its tedium. Only the Irish geniuses wrote like this."

—Barry Hannah, author of Airships, Ray, and Yonder Stands our Orphan

"The best thing to come out of the South since A Confederacy of Dunces. I haven't seen or heard such an eloquent flow of just-right words since Odysseus was caught lying to Athena."

—Gregory Rabassa, professor at Queens College, City translator of Gabriel García Márquez's
One Hundred Years of Solitude
and other novels