"Funny, thoughtful, full of refreshing surprises, it will take you to Heaven and back." --Elizabeth Strout, author of Amy and Isabelle
"Ray in Reverse is filled with wonder at the world and a gentle sadness over one man-child's baffled place in it. Unfailingly gentle and acute, the book somehow manages to get bigger and bigger as it moves toward its unusual vanishing point. A winning production from a singular writer." --Thomas Mallon, author of Dewey Defeats Truman
"A damn good book." --Percival Everett, author of Glyph
"A delightful, small package of exquisite writing...Ray is real, and his life makes oddly compelling reading--especially in reverse." --Booklist, starred review
Praise for Big Fish
"A comic novel about death, about the mysteries of parents and the redemptive power of storytelling." --USA Today
"Refreshing, original debut...the transformative quality of fable and fairy tale." --Publishers Weekly, starred review
"An audacious, highly original debut novel...an imaginative, and moving, record of a son's love for a charming, unknowable father." --Kirkus Reviews
"Both comic and poignant." --The New York Times Book Review
"A magic carpet ride of a novel...amazing." --Birmingham Weekly