The Shimmering Go-Between

Take a walk alongside Murakami's parallel worlds, Wes Anderson's humor and radical elegance, Franz Kafka's metaphorical ventures and Charlie Kaufman's radiant melancholy. Enter a dark and joyous exploration of how we deal with our particularities, how we deal with grief, how we deal with unthinkable thoughts and unexpressed urges. An OMG exploration of WTF . . . If Willful Suspension of Disbelief were a race in the literary Olympics, this moving and luminous debut would set the record. If this novel were edible, it'd be less like a plate of meat than an inside-out eel roll atop a Russian doll.Set in suburban New Jersey at the dawn of the Internet age, this imaginatively unhinged yet formally controlled contemporary fable dramatizes the struggle between impulsivity and restraint. A sort of semi-perverted post-YA novel, it's about confronting disbelief, overcoming obstacles imposed by self and others, and negotiating challenges associated with a vital inner life. Hot air balloons! Terraria! Goop storms! Never has a semi-illustrated story about longing, loss, and love been so good-natured, inventive, and insane. "A moving, modern meditation on loss and renewal, The Shimmering Go-Between isrecommended for readers who want innovation and whimsy without losing the heart and soulthat makes a story resonate long after it's been read." - Foreword ReviewsAn "intricately layered debut novel that manages to reorganize the landscapes of conception, birth, death, Heaven and New Jersey . . . Klein leads the reader to a ledge of unbelievability and dares the reader to believe . . . and then he pushes you off that ledge. Giggling." - Word RiotFile under:Contemporary American Fabulism