Bowlaway

“There’s a wickedness to McCracken’s technique, the way she lures us in with her witty voice and oddball characters but then kicks the wind out of us. She never misses the infamous 7-10 split, managing to hit Annie Proulx and Anne Tyler with the same ball.”—Ron Charles, Washington Post

“An oddball masterpiece…. Elizabeth McCracken holds a funhouse mirror up to the Great American Novel. This is McCracken’s masterpiece, a story of reinvention…. The author has reframed the family saga for the misfit: that truest American character.” —Entertainment Weekly

“Bowlaway is that most improbable of literary phenomena: a buoyant, joyful, rollicking yarn of sadness and loss…. McCracken’s gloriously vibrant and boisterously surprising narrative voice is one of the great triumphs of Bowlaway… A tour de force.” Boston Globe