| Indiana,
Indiana
Reviews
Minneapolis Star Tribune:
"[D]ownright delicious with delightful dialogue, clever conclusions to curious problems, and characters you wish you could hear more from."
The Review of Contemporary Fiction:
"A subtle, elegant, and haunting novel."
Westchester Journal News, Best of Books issue:
"Indiana, Indiana is an episodic story of love lost and a nearly vanished America, whose fragments each speak little worlds and whose landscape one can only leave at the end with regret."
Ruminator Review:
"In a book framed around burials, Hunt's word craft is where the living gets done. . . . an all-too-rare success in an all-too-rare style."
Big Muddy: A Journal of the Mississippi River Valley:
"Just flipping through the pages, we see openness and gaps. Hunt summons us to fill these gaps with our own lives and memories. We stop reading to think abut conversations we've had with family members who have since departed. We wonder how we will while away the hours before our passing. . . . Indiana, Indiana is indeed beautifully written."
Poetry Project Newsletter:
"This is an epic series of love stories, spanning generations full of tall tales, switchbacks, revelations, sidetracks, and poems. There is not one false step."
Library Journal:
"[Indiana, Indiana] succeeds at calling up the ghosts of a generation and a way of life that have almost disappeared. Highly recommended."
Booklist:
"A haunting and enigmatic tale . . . Hunt's somber and quietly beautiful novel is like a slide show, each moody and visually lush chapter a luminous and evocative tableau cast upon the mind of the reader."
Kirkus Reviews:
"Faulknerian . . . vivid (and heartbreaking)."
Publishers Weekly:
"Crisp and visceral . . . an autumnal serenade to rural America."
Books: A Reader's Catalog:
"Laird Hunt's nearly dizzying and powerful narrative wends its way through an entire lifetime during one night in Indiana, Indiana. As an old man, Noah Summers looks back, sometimes unwillingly, through the memories, visions, and regrets he accumulated over the years. This is a feat of a novel, written in an innovative and non-chronological style that is intelligent as well as being evocative and emotional."
Paul Auster:
"Strange, original, and utterly brilliant—Laird Hunt is one of the most talented young writers on the American scene today."
Rikki Ducornet:
"Laird Hunt is a marvelous writer and a gutsy one—in Indiana, Indiana he offers an intimate reverie of people and place that, for its lyricism, odd humor, and delicacy, evokes the early Ondaatje."
Amy Fusselman:
"As everyone who read The Impossibly knows, Laird Hunt's ability to create a sense of otherworldliness is astonishing. Indiana, Indiana resonates for miles."
Lynne Tillman:
"Like the best American writers, Laird Hunt is recasting the American song, lyrically and philosophically. His novels are smart and refreshing and genuinely unusual. He's a seeker, in the best literary sense. He's looking for and finding vivid language and forms, ways to write what he sees and understands about his and our weird, fortunate, and troubled lives and times."
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