Publish Date |
February 05, 2019 |
Category |
Fiction / Coming of Age Fiction / Mystery & Detective |
Price |
$24.99 |
ISBN: 9781501187902
Format: Paperback
Pages: 368
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: February 05, 2019
Funny and tragic and brave… a beautiful, original novel.I’ve never read anything like this. Completely original, and impossible to predict. I loved this book.
An original novel: poignant, engaging, at times suspenseful and even comic. It takes real skill to create a consistently credible child narrator, but I believed in 13-year-old Jasper and his confounding world. A triumph.Jasper—whose world is both more colorful and more frightening than ours—is a character who will stay with me for some time. Harris has written a literary page turner that utterly captivated me. A stunning debut.I found myself not just drawn but expertly daubed in to Jasper's world, with its splattered sense of morals and innocence.In this fantastic debut, Harris enters the technicolor mind of 13-year-old Jasper Wishart… Readers enamored of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and The Rosie Project will delight in Harris’s sparkling novel.A compelling and emotionally charged mystery that warrants comparisons to Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.“Sarah J. Harris has written an insightful character study with a terrific mystery alongside. Or maybe it’s a terrific mystery chaperoned by a compelling, heartbreaking, insightful narrator. Take your pick. Either way, it’s a great story, hard to put down and beautifully told.”