Description: "Jeffrey Ford is one of the few writers who uses wonder instead of ink in his pen." -- Jonathan Carroll, author of The Wooden Sea "Properly creepy, but from time to time deliciously funny and heart-breakingly poignant, too. For those of you--and you know who you are--who think the indispensable element for good genre fiction is good writing, this is not to be missed." -- Kirkus Review, Starred "Surreal, unsettling, and more than a little weird. Ford has a rare gift for evoking mood with just a few well-chosen words and for creating living, breathing characters with only a few lines of dialogue." -- Booklist "Superb, heartbreaking, and masterfully written . . . It's proof of Jeffrey Ford's narrative power that, ultimately, the distinction [between real and invented] doesn't much matter. His made-up world trumps ours." -- Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction "The Shadow Year captures the totality of a lived period, its actualities and its dreams, its mundane essentials and its odd subjective imperatives; it is a work of episodic beauty and mercurial significance." -- Nick Gevers, Locus "Properly creepy, but from time to time deliciously funny and heart-breakingly poignant, too." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Think Ray Bradbury's Green Town stories, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and Stephen King's The Body (made into the film Stand by Me) and you get an idea of the tone of Ford's latest fine work. Grade: A" -- Rocky Mountain News "Children are the original magic realists. The effects that novelists of a postmodern bent must strive for come naturally to the young, a truth given inventive realization in this wonderful quasi-mystery tale by Jeffrey Ford." -- Boston Globe on THE SHADOW YEAR "We should be grateful that alongside the firm of Updike, Cheever, Ford & Company there exists, in both fiction and film, an American tradition that depicts the suburbs as places of wonder rather than stultification, discovery rather than predictability." -- New York Newsday "Jeffrey Ford's latest triumph, THE SHADOW YEAR, is as haunting as it is humorous...readers will recognize real talent in Ford's vivid, unerring voice." -- Louisville Courier Journal on THE SHADOW YEAR

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