Critical Praise

"Kyle Beachy has a knack for fantastic little nuggets of observation…Like his protagonist, the first-time author is brimming with potential."

—Entertainment Weekly

"A funny and endearing novel about a bumbling guy who makes bad situations worse with the best of intentions....Debut novelist Beachy has a wry wit, a wily sense of the ridiculous, and an athletic gift for description."

—Booklist

"At once hilarious, strange and uncomfortable…. Beachy’s characters, infinitely fallible, are real and fleshy…. [The hero Potter] is lovable even when he is annoying."

—Publishers Weekly

"The theme is American Home, that place that lesser writers sentimentalize and satirize. Kyle Beachy writes with bracing melancholy in a voice that is all his own, and his St. Louis, like Cheever's Westchester, is populated with isolated, self-aware characters, each of whom is new to us. His hero, Potter Mays, is great company."

—Jincy Willett, author of The Writing Class and Winner of the National Book Award