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Reviews

"Palmer’s prose is astonishing in its range. At times, it reads like a systems theory textbook, at others like a raucous folk ballad. His characters are fully realized and often strange [...] The novel doesn’t resolve into redemption, but into reckoning: a man coming to grips with the ghosts that shaped him and deciding what kind of ancestor he wants to be. Fans of Duck’s Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann and The Overstory by Richard Powers will want to take a look.

A brilliant tale about the long arc of consequences and the strange, hopeful act of trying to understand the world through its ruins." 

- The Prairies Book Review

"Palmer’s dense, unruly novel that follows one man’s long, looping attempt to make meaning out of personal and historical wreckage [...] An intellectually rich, emotionally resonant, darkly funny chronicle of one man’s journey to make sense of the world and his fractured place in it." 
- BookView Review

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