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# Shelter in Place: A Novel

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			        		Praise for Shelter in Place&quot;Alexander Maksik is a sorcerer of the first order, and Shelter in Place is a sharp, dark, jagged music conjured out of poetry, pain and ecstatic bursts of beauty. This is a powerful book.&quot;&#x2014;Lauren Groff, author of Fates and Furies&quot;Shelter in Place is a magnificent novel. Alexander Maksik charts the legacy of violence and the limits of justice with grace, power, and clarity.&quot;&#x2014;Anthony Marra, author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena and The Tsar of Love and Techno&quot;An unsettling and beautiful exploration of mental illness, love, violence, family and sexual politics. Maksik&#x2019;s artful story outruns all sorts of received ideas and cliched narratives, and slips into deeply original territory. You&#x2019;ll be haunted by it in the best possible way.&quot;&#x2014;Katie Roiphe, author of The Violet Hour and In Praise of Messy Lives&quot;Unsettling and honest, a remarkably insightful portrait of mental illness, Shelter in Place is elegiac, savage and mournful, a beautifully written novel about the echoes of our actions, of love and its consequences.&quot;&#x2014;Aminatta Forna, author of The Hired Man and The Memory of Love&quot;Shelter In Place is a love story like none I&#x2019;ve ever read before. Lust, longing, betrayal, revenge&#x2014;it&#x2019;s all here, but only when and where you least expect it. Densely ruminative, and bracingly unromantic, the ballad of Tess, Joe, and his parents tests the brutal outer-limits of patriarchy, the bleak realities of untreated mental illness, and the nature of loyalty in a world where every woman is out for herself. And every man, as well.&quot;&#x2014;Kate Bolick, author of Spinster: Making a Life of One&#x2019;s Own&quot;Shelter in Place takes a brilliant look at the fractured, jagged nature of masculinity, at how gender warps consciousness in ways we struggle and fail to understand. Maksik writes from inside the fire of a mind unfiltered, unsettled, unresigned, a mind it would be too simple to call unwell. The narrator&#x2019;s episodes of mania are glittering raptures, electric; his descents into the infinite nothingness of depression drawn so true to that state of absence, of blindness, of Styron&#x2019;s &#x2018;darkness visible,&#x2019; you feel all the numb trapped terror of it. This book&#x2019;s cutting, unchecked prose makes you an accomplice to violence, and leads you to realize we all are&#x2014;formed and directed by cruelty, whether as victims, agents, warriors, survivors, or witnesses. Shelter in Place poses the hard, important, and perhaps unanswerable question&#x2014;how do you live with your self?&#x2014;Merritt Tierce, author of Love Me Back&#xA0;&quot;There&apos;s something truly exhilarating about reading a novel that&apos;s so audaciously original, so inventive and let&apos;s be honest, so sort of weird that you want to put it in the hands of just about everyone you know. And that&apos;s a perfect description of Alexander Maksik&apos;s stunningly unsettling third novel, Shelter in Place.&quot;&#x2014;San Francisco Chronicle&quot;Maksik has an expansive and affecting vision of human capacity. He also evokes time and place particularly well&#x2014;early 1990s Washington here is as vivid as Santorini or Paris in his other books.&quot;&#x2014;The New York Times&quot;A riveting, darkly beautiful novel . . . poised to be one of the big books of the season &#x2013; the kind of sweeping story that encompasses so much of what it is to be human.&quot;&#x2014;Departures&#xA0;&quot;Sensual, musical...Shelter in Place is as unquestionably brilliant as it is painful; a rare meditation on mania, depression, and the rage of youth.&quot;&#x2014;The Huffington Post&quot;Alexander Maksik&#x2019;s riveting and disturbing novel&#xA0;Shelter in Place&#xA0;is a totally original exploration of mental illness, sexual politics, family and violence.&quot;&#x2014;The Guardian&#x201C;Alexander Maksik covers fresh ground with each new work. In poetic bursts&#x2026;[he] captures [his characters&#x2019;] inner convulsions while exploring the passions that can drive, and destroy, us.&#x201D;helter in Place,&#x201D; is an exceptional look at the vagaries of bi-polar disorder, as well as a powerful consideration of family (both blood and chosen), violence against women (and in response to that violence), and the overwhelming power of love (even when that love comes at a high cost).&#x201D;&#x2014;Vanity Fair &quot;Shelter in Place is an exceptional look at the vagaries of bi-polar disorder, as well as a powerful consideration of family (both blood and chosen), violence against women (and in response to that violence), and the overwhelming power of love (even when that love comes at a high cost).&quot;&#x2014;The Cedar Rapids Gazette&quot;[A] striking narrative. . . Maksik&apos;s Joe March is a man for today as much as Ishmael and Stephen were for Melville&apos;s and Joyce&apos;s days.&quot;&#x2014;Shelf Awareness&quot;Maksik describes the highs and lows of bipolar disorder with heartbreaking beauty and terror.&quot;&#x2014;Angel City Review&quot;Shelter in Place subverts the Manic Pixie Dream Girl by taking her to her extreme conclusion. ...This is a book about the women in Joe&#x2019;s life&#x2013; mothers and lovers, sisters and strangers&#x2013; but it manages to be feminist, angry, and deeply moving.&quot;&#x2014;Book Riot&#x201C;An incredibly courageous novel that delves deeply into issues of love, gender, violence and mental illness.&#x201D;&#x2014;Chuck Robinson of Village Books in Publisher&#x2019;s Weekly&#x201C;On every page we&apos;re reminded of the paradox of how mysterious, thorny, and delicate family relationships can be.&#x201D;&#x2014;Kirkus Reviews&quot;[A] scorching third novel. Maksik [delivers] a portrait of bipolar disorder&#x2026;that is honest and devastating.&quot;&#x2014;Publishers Weekly&#x201C;Maksik is one of the most exacting and daring writers we have . . . from the first sentence there&#x2019;s no turning away from this story.&#x201D;&#x2014;Literary Hub&quot;Delicately nuanced, this mini saga of an America that lays just behind the headlines is full of emotions, lacerating but true to life in that it is about a recognisable form of everyday life and digs up feelings we all have inevitably had at times.&quot;&#x2014;LovereadingPraise For the New York Times Notable Book, A Marker to Measure Drift&#x201C;A bold book, and an instructive one. . . . [Maksik] has illuminated for us, with force and art, an all too common species of suffering.&#x201D;&#x2014;Norman Rush,&#xA0;The New York Times Book Review &#x201C;No novel I read this year affected me more powerfully than A Marker to Measure Drift.&#x201D;&#x2014;Richard Russo, author of Empire Falls &#x201C;A truly breathtaking accomplishment . . . a work of stupendous imagination, like Dave Eggers&#x2019; What is the What, or (dare I say?) like Mark Twain&#x2019;s Huckleberry Finn.&#x201D;&#x2014;Ayelet Waldman, author of Love and Treasure &#x201C;Beautiful...It will leave you breathless and speechless; it will send you reeling.&#x201D;&#x2014;The San Francisco ChroniclePraise for You Deserve Nothing &#x201C;Immensely powerful . . . Beautifully written . . .&#x201D;&#x2014;The Boston Globe  &#x201C;A wonderful debut novel.&#x201D;&#x2014;The Denver Post&quot;A&#xA0;novel rivetingly plotted and beautifully written. . . [Maksik]&#xA0;writes about the moral ambiguity of Will&apos;s circumstances with dazzling clarity and impressive philosophical rigor.&quot; &#x2014;Adam Langer,&#xA0;The New York Times  &#x201C;A powerful, absorbing novel . . . Maksik is an unusually gifted writer.&#x201D; &#x2014;Tom Perrotta, author of The Abstinence Teacher and The Leftovers &#x201C;Here is a writer who understands why the artful telling of a difficult story is a brave and important thing to do.&#x201D; &#x2014;John Burnham Schwartz, author of Reservation Road &#x201C;A provocative, constantly surprising, and original novel. This is a thrilling debut.&#x201D;&#x2014;Susanna Moore, author of In the Cut
						    	
					    	
						
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			        		Alexander Maksik is the author of the novels You Deserve Nothing (Europa, 2011) and A Marker to Measure Drift (Knopf, 2013), which was a New York Times Book Review Notable Book, as well as a finalist for both the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing and Le Prix du Meilleur Livre&#xA0;&#xC9;tranger.
						    	
					    	
						
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