Forthcoming from Atelier26, Fall 2024
*An American Booksellers Association #1 Indie Next Pick*
*Finalist for the Indie Next Book of the Year Award with Marilynne Robinson's Gilead, Joyce Carol Oates' The Falls, and Philip Roth's The Plot Against America*
*A USA Today Novel to Watch*
*A "Best Book of the West" - The Salt Lake Tribune*
*Listed as a "Regional Classic" by the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Association (MPBA)*
*Finalist for the Indie Next Book of the Year Award with Marilynne Robinson's Gilead, Joyce Carol Oates' The Falls, and Philip Roth's The Plot Against America*
*A USA Today Novel to Watch*
*A "Best Book of the West" - The Salt Lake Tribune*
*Listed as a "Regional Classic" by the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Association (MPBA)*
"In this mesmerizing first novel by a gifted young writer, the drama of California’s rich immigrant history and the freshness and wonder of childhood combine with darker elements of legend, magic and mystery ... In breathtaking language that contrasts the striking landscape of California's Diablo Valley with the harsh details of life in an 1870s coal-mining boom town, M. Allen Cunningham takes us to an extraordinary time and place. It is a time when the brutal hardships of daily life are leavened by a sense of miraculous change just around the corner. It is a place of sensual, almost supernatural beauty, peopled with remarkable characters. Impeccably imagined, sensitive and real in its portrayal of a young boy confronting unanswerable questions with grace and strength, The Green Age of Asher Witherow ... convincingly shatters the equation of childhood and innocence."
-BookBrowse, Your Guide to Exceptional Books
"The Green Age of Asher Witherow deserves your immediate consideration. A mix of wild supposition and real-life facts. Part legend, part horror story, part Pacific Rim myth, part fact and part metaphor."
-The Santa Cruz Sentinel
"Gritty and magical, fantastic and authentic. It is one of the best books I've read this year."
-Susan Swagler, The Birmingham News
"Lyrical. Spins a deceptively simple tale from a language as delicate as lace. Finely wrought."
-Rain Taxi
"Compelling and artfully told."
-The St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"Vivid. Impressive."
-The San Jose Mercury News
"An Amazing first novel."
-The Rocky Mountain News
"Too compelling to put down."
-The Salt Lake Tribune
"One of the finest debut novels I've ever read. For a twenty-six-year-old novelist to produce this book ought to be impossible, but you hold the shocking evidence in your hands."
-Steve Yarbrough
"Display[s] a mastery that is surprising in a novelistic debut."
-Booklist
"Remarkable. A feat reminiscent of William Styron's Lie Down in Darkness."
-Foreword Reviews
-BookBrowse, Your Guide to Exceptional Books
"The Green Age of Asher Witherow deserves your immediate consideration. A mix of wild supposition and real-life facts. Part legend, part horror story, part Pacific Rim myth, part fact and part metaphor."
-The Santa Cruz Sentinel
"Gritty and magical, fantastic and authentic. It is one of the best books I've read this year."
-Susan Swagler, The Birmingham News
"Lyrical. Spins a deceptively simple tale from a language as delicate as lace. Finely wrought."
-Rain Taxi
"Compelling and artfully told."
-The St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"Vivid. Impressive."
-The San Jose Mercury News
"An Amazing first novel."
-The Rocky Mountain News
"Too compelling to put down."
-The Salt Lake Tribune
"One of the finest debut novels I've ever read. For a twenty-six-year-old novelist to produce this book ought to be impossible, but you hold the shocking evidence in your hands."
-Steve Yarbrough
"Display[s] a mastery that is surprising in a novelistic debut."
-Booklist
"Remarkable. A feat reminiscent of William Styron's Lie Down in Darkness."
-Foreword Reviews
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