The Boiling Season: A Novel
&#8220;Hebert demonstrates an ambition and clarity of vision that is rare in a first novel&#8230;A rich, synthesized imagining of the personal history of a country torn asunder.&#8221; (Kirkus Reviews)&#8220;Hypnotically fascinating&#8230;It&#8217;s remarkable to see an American novel so profoundly steeped in the tradition of the great Haitian writers of the twentieth century.&#8221; (Madison Smartt Bell, author of ALL SOULS' RISING)&#8220;THE BOILING SEASON asks all the right questions, and it answers those questions beautifully, with great dramatic force.&#8221; (Charles Baxter, author of THE FEAST OF LOVE AND GRYPHON: NEW AND SELECTED STORIES)&#8220;&#8230;luminous and important&#8230;Christopher Hebert is a serious new novelist, one who&#8217;s offered us a real gift-a mesmerizing entertainment that uplifts, educates, moves, and changes us.&#8221; (Laura Kasischke, author of IN A PERFECT WORLD and THE RAISING)&#8220;With an unforced formality of diction&#8230;the whole is told with such clear-eyed compassion that the reader comes to honor failure-one mark of this novel&#8217;s success.&#8221; (Nicholas Delbanco, author of SHERBROOKES)&#8220;THE BOILING SEASON is a beguiling political novel&#8230;Hebert conjures this strife-torn island-at once fictitious, but also hauntingly familiar-with uncanny precision and compelling lucidity.&#8221; (Peter Ho Davies, author of THE WELSH GIRL)&#8220;&#8230;a tour de force of restrained, unreliable first-person narration, a love letter to a beautiful, forgotten place, and a visceral depiction of Haitian political upheaval&#8230;A truly auspicious debut.&#8221; (Michael Knight, author of THE TYPIST and THE DIVINING ROD)&#8220;Hebert conjures a vibrant atmosphere, as rich as a character as any inhabitant, whether in the fetid stink of the slums or the cool, detached opulence of the most affluent homes...&#8221; (Booklist)&#8220;Allegories about the morality of international development projects are rarely as subtle and lyrical as Christopher Hebert&#8217;s debut novel, &#8216;The Boiling Season.&#8217;&#8221; (San Francisco Chronicle)&#8220;&#8217;The Boiling Season&#8217; is a subtly crafted novel and an auspicious debut for Hebert.&#8221; (Dayton Daily News)