![]() ![]() “A starkly sweet story…Its arrival on the current American literary landscape is somewhat akin to a rainbow appearing over an industrial park. “Childhood innocence doesn’t crop up much these days in serious fiction…Jim the Boy blithely and successfully counters this trend…Seen through Jim’s eyes, everything that happens to him seems strange and somehow magical.” - Time Earley may not have invented the coming-of-age novel, but he streamlines and reawakens the genre with this swift, lovely book.” - New York Times “A radiant, knowing, pitch-perfect parable of childhood…Mr. As his short stories have already shown, Tony Earley is a wonderful writer.” - Alice McDermott, National Book Award–winning author of Charming Billy ![]() A sweet, graceful novel that charms the reader with marvelous language, honest emotion, and authentic characters who are no less human, no less complex, for being sincere and straightforward, and good. ![]()
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