"A fascinating novel that coagulates in detailed dosages, segments or short chapters, which reflect real time along with past experiences, and on occasion project into the future, thus bending the restrictions of linear time even as the overall structure of the story assumes chronology, as in the life of Edward, protagonist and first-person narrator. Precise prose of a steady narrative voice anchors a reality that sometimes slips into mysterious sensuality where exterior and interior worlds meld. For those liking Kazuo Ishiguro's fiction, here's a book that'll appeal." - Michael Onofrey, author of Bewilderment and Sightseeing

"A near-perfect synthesis of Gertrude Stein's Food and Stephen Dixon's End of I., Carla Bradsher-Fredrick's debut novel is an encyclopedia of obsessive poetry and exacting analysis, a vivid in-gathering of all the brilliant and aching fragments that come to define a single human life. A truly gorgeous novel." - Douglas Milliken, author of Blue of the World

"Carla Bradsher-Fredrick is a writer's writer, recalling Faulkner, D.H. Lawrence, or Virginia Woolf . . . I felt my norms shiver some with voyeuristic power, assessing. A fair-minded reader will emerge with cultured awareness, maybe self-knowledge and empathy, all the while relishing [her] perfect language." - Paul Nelson, author of Refrigerator Church