Susan Henderson – LitPark

Achingly magnificent. …The Flicker of Old Dreams is a real, honest achievement in modern fiction. —The London Economic

“Her narrator is one of the most memorable voices to show up in fiction in ages. —Jim Daniels, Pushcart and Brittingham Prize winner, and author of NO PETS, DETROIT TALES, PLACES/EVERYONE, PUNCHING OUT M-80, BLESSING THIS HOUSE, BLUE JESUS, NIGHT WITH DRIVE-BY SHOOTING STARS, LETTERS TO AMERICA: CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETRY ON RACE

Just exquisite.—Kirk Ellis, Emmy Award-winning writer and producer of the HBO miniseries, John Adams, and the DreamWorks miniseries, Into the West

“A rare literary page-turner full of shocking discoveries and twists. Susan Henderson has created a remarkable narrator – as memorable for her feistiness as for her tenderness. —Josh Kilmer-Purcell, NY Times bestselling author of I AM NOT MYSELF THESE DAYS

If Shirley Jackson and Kent Haruf had a love child, she might write like Susan Henderson.—Jonathan Evison, New York Times bestselling author of West of Here and The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving

“Beautiful and maddening, hopeful and condemning, simple, yet like a knot that takes a lifetime to untangle. This is a book that you will love completely, even as it hurts you.” —Jamie Ford, New York Times bestselling author of HOTEL ON THE CORNER OF BITTER AND SWEET

Henderson is a master stylist whose sentences are cut with razor-sharp precision. —Los Angeles Review of Books

Reminds me of “The Glass Castle” by Jeannette Walls. I would recommend this book to everyone. —Rosie O’Donnell

Henderson is a master stylist whose sentences are cut with razor-sharp precision. —Los Angeles Review of Books

Susan Henderson is a seven-time Pushcart Prize nominee, the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Award, and the author of two novels, Up from the Blue and The Flicker of Old Dreams, both published by HarperCollins. A lifetime member of the NAACP and the National Book Critics Circle, she lives in New York and blogs at the writer support group, LitPark.com.