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THE UNIVERSE IN MINIATURE IN MINIATURE

Patrick Somerville has perfect pitch across the thirty-odd voices in these stories, gets perfect reception from past and future both. He is funny and sad and scalpel-sharp, at times all in the same sentence. This book contains worlds within worlds. Every single one of them enriches ours.

—Roy Kesey, author of ALL OVER

 

 

This is a visionary story collection. Somerville inhabits the minds of his characters so beautifully you can almost picture him reclining on a couch in their brains.

—Jami Attenberg, author of THE MELTING SEASON

 

 

 

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THE CRADLE

 

A magical debut novel... In a streamlined 200-page book that works as a fully conceived novel, he tells an endearing story full of genuinely surprising turns...And all of this sleight of hand is executed with the light, graceful touch that makes Mr. Somerville someone to watch.

—Janet Maslin, THE NEW YORK TIMES

 

 

A marvelous debut...Somerville builds a road narrative that gradually accumulates the mythic echoes and dreamlike inevitability of allegory.

—Michael Lindgren, THE WASHINGTON POST