God's Dogs: A Novel in Stories
"God's Dogs pulls off impressively what seems, in practice, almost impossible to do well - a novel in stories. Fastidious, trenchant, spare and often eloquent, Mitch Wieland's stories have great breadth, powerful sympathies, and a renewing comprehension of our human selves which we only find in the best literature." - Richard Ford "Wieland's is a book bigger than its well-fit parts, a book that rouses and reaches for more than the expected, a book that gets our crooked kind right, a book that shakes the dickens out of the heart, a book that offers Big Answers to Big Questions." - Lee K. Abbott, author of All Things, All at Once "Wieland writes with fearless wonder, a piercing sense of loss, and the resilient grace of humor." - Melanie Rae Thon, author of Sweet Hearts "One of our country's best magazine editors shows he's a keen creator of fine stories and makes characters out of sentences all of us should envy." - Alan Cheuse, book commentator for National Public Radio's All Things Considered"