Sweetly wistful ... Funny and forlorn in equal measure, and while I expected Ed’s cowboy shtick to get stale, his voice remains endearing to the book’s inquisitive (and, inevitably, woebegone) ending.
In this fascinating and hilarious consideration of the repression of grief and feeling in contemporary America, Mendelsund explores faith, mourning, friendship, and death in his singularly evocative style.
Humane and darkly comic ... Though Weepers is the sort of novel that resists the easy consolation of a neat ending, that doesn't detract from its appeal. Reflective and atmospheric, it's a meaningful expression of our attempt grapple with some of life's most profound mysteries.
