RaveThe Washington Independent Review of Books12 pages into The Son, it was clear this was the work of an uncommonly visionary and skillful writer with a superb sense of pacing … The Son is a beautiful, violent and frequently heartbreaking book, but it is not without a sense of fun … Meyer’s Southwest landscape is always fresh and alive on the page, and he is so fluent in the archaic language his characters speak that their dialogue bursts into life like some priceless archival recording. Readers are lucky: they can buy this wonderful novel at any bookstore.
