“Funny and beautifully crafted . . . Miller’s affecting chronicle reveals the often messy ways that families fall apart and the way that writing acts both as remembrance and redemption.”
—Publishers Weekly

“What Miller presents is a kind of forgiveness, brave, heroic, and largely uncharted by male
writers . . . he lends empathy and strength
to a story that could otherwise be just
one of victimhood.” —ForeWord

“Few writers have given more compelling voice to their memories of a particular place. The Great American Midwest will never look—
or feel—the same.”
—Jackson Lears, author of Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877–1920

“Miller’s imagination is astounding in its breadth and detail, but it is the heart behind the words, the emotion he brings to the smallest moments, that makes me such an admirer of his work.”
—Hannah Tinti, author of The Good Thief