Michael Kimball: Michael Kimball is the author of three novels including Dear Everybody and The Way the Family Got Away, which have been translated into a dozen languages, and US. His work has been featured on NPR's All Things Considered, in Vice, and in The Guardian. www.michael-kimball.com
"There are two books I can remember that ever made me physically
cry. There were the rape scenes in Saramago's Blindness, and there
was nearly every chapter of Michael Kimball's [US]. While the first
hurt because it was so brutal, Kimball's was a softer kind of
invocation--as I read it in a bathtub, I could not shake the
feeling of being held, as if somehow the words had interlaced my
skin. This is the essence of the magic Michael Kimball holds--his
sentences come on so taut, so right there, and yet somehow so
calming, it's as if you are being visited by some lighted
presence."
--Blake Butler
"Michael Kimball never ceases to astonish. He is a hero of
contemporary fiction."
--Sam Lipsyte
"Be warned: this book has the power to make even the most
hard-hearted of readers shed a tear. Kimball has broken into new
territory: [US] is one of the most graphic depictions of illness
and loss I have ever read."
--The Glasgow Herald
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