Reviews

The stories are linked by place, each set in or near Flagstaff, Arizona, and one can sense both Louis’s love for and frustration with the seemingly idyllic mountain town.

Brooks creates a gothic novel with the same clever and unseen yet unescapable hand as Austen in Northanger Abbey or Bronte in Jane Eyre.

It is like Noah carefully picked up most of the cues of the human condition, at every single rung of his ladder-rise to fame and whipped all of that into his game.

By turns bracingly elegiac and deeply, darkly funny, The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land is a stunning debut.

The body makes itself known and establishes itself as the forefront of this collection.

What can be found in the liner notes of this book is a young person trying to find their place in the outer world and inner world that exists in their head

The spirit of the book lies in creativity and community and finding a way to build a livelihood out of this thing that you love.

Each story lives in that same atmosphere, one that’s razor-sharp in its intentionality, placing the reader in an otherworldly state-of-mind.