Reviews

"Malott employs a matter-of-factness that emphasizes the horrific unlikelihood of his war stories. All the while, he pulls the reader from one story to the next, from one period and place to another--from present-day Bosnia back to Kansas City, where Gray lived; from the search for Gray back to his days in the war."--Bookforum.com "Malott strips down the language and amps up the tension as he creates an indelible portrait of the shell shocked and dispossessed."--BOOKLIST "Compelling."--The Wichita Eagle "A sparely written and stark depiction of three people and a nation confronting the horrors of war...The causes and consequences of a centuries-old conflict (for historical background, Ivo Andric's novel Bridge on the Drina, is a classic work) are revealed through deft storytelling and main characters that transcend their ethnicities to become real people in all their complexity."--ALBANY TIMES UNION.COM "A timely meditation on exile and illness, love and guilt, beautifully written...I look eagerly forward to whatever he writes next."--Scott Phillips, author of The Ice Harvest