Praise for

NIAGARA FALLS ALL OVER AGAIN

“Affable, sympathetic, sufficiently self-aware and capable of rising to lofty heights of lyricism and insight, he has decided to unpack a lifetime’s worth of memories. . . . It’s hard to imagine a more companionable narrator than Mose Sharp.”

—The New York Times Book Review

“McCracken’s first novel, The Giant’s House, was witty, inventive, and a finalist for the National Book Award. This second novel is even better.”

—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

“Brims with fondness for these game, playful characters and the lost wonders of their vaudeville world.”

—The New York Times

“McCracken understands the ambiguous relationship between comedy and tragedy as well as she understands the relationship between these two funny men. . . . At the punch line, you want to laugh and cry.”

—The Christian Science Monitor

“Captivating and funny.”

—Chicago Tribune

“As they say, you’ll laugh and you’ll cry. . . . Niagara Falls All Over Again is also the achievement of a narrative voice—warm, astute, differently funny—capable of accommodating both the gags, the disasters, and just the passage of time, just the living.”

—The Times Literary Supplement (London)

“Tender and immensely entertaining.”

—The Seattle Times

“McCracken has created a one-of-a-kind character who, like the very best of comedians, transcends his immediate cultural and historical context through his raw, recognizable humanity. Mose is a figure who will long endure in readers’ imaginations.”

—Elle

“Relentlessly eventful, rollickingly funny, and heartwarming . . . In its delicate balance of black humor, irony and pathos, this novel is as exhilarating as the waters of Niagara, its flow mimicking the tumultuous rush of time.”

—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“In McCracken’s hands, the comic duo becomes a perfect metaphor for partnership of all kinds.”

—Newsday

“Mose’s voice is wonderful—it’s so dazzlingly authentic that we kept glancing at the author’s photo on the book just to remind ourselves that someone made it all up.”

—The Arizona Republic

“Enchantingly detailed and immensely appealing . . . charted with masterly precision and empathy . . . This one is going places.”

—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)