“If there’s any justice in the literary world — and occasionally there is — McClanahan will get the widespread recognition he’s long deserved with The Sarah Book, his tragic and beautiful second novel. It’s an unsparing primal scream of a book, and it convincingly makes the case that McClanahan is one of the best American writers of his generation … loss is the main theme of the novel, and McClanahan explores the topic with an honesty so raw, it’s likely to bring tears to your eyes more than once … The Sarah Book is slim, and there are no wasted words in it. He’s a musical writer, and the novel is full of passages that beg to be reread over and over again … brave, triumphant and beautiful — it reads like a fever dream, and it feels like a miracle.”
–Michael Schaub, NPR, June 21, 2017
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