Water

by J.A. Tyler

Of Boy, of Girl, of Land, of children - Heather, Jen, Jack, John - of teachers, of Noah, of Tangleweeds, of zzzzzzzzzz, of people, of axe, of fathers, of mothers, of families, of rain, always the rain. J. A. Tyler's Water chokes us with these things and more. One thing becoming another, becoming another, and glimpses of how they came to be, where they are now, where they are headed; all of it with a language and rhythm that carries us along, ugly and surreal. Water envelops, nonstop, soaking.

- xTx, author of Normally Special

150 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 8, 2012

About the author

J. A. Tyler is the author of The Zoo, a Going (Dzanc Books). His work has been published in Denver Quarterly, Hayden's Ferry Review, Black Warrior Review, Fairy Tale Review, and New York Tyrant among others. He is also an interviewer for Ploughshares.

Reviews

[Edward Rathke · Rating 5 out of 5]

Meant to read for about twenty minutes before I went to sleep but accidentally read this whole book.

It's beautiful and haunting and tragic and everything that I've come to expect from JA Tyler.

It's brilliant. Buy it, read it, then again. Hold it close, because this is the greatest apocalypse.

Full review at Heavy Feather Review.

[Robert Kloss · Rating 5 out of 5]

Maybe my favorite of J.A. Tyler's many novel(la)s. This is a kind of his "Peter Markus meets Blake Butler" novel--ambitious and vast in its scope and mythic and ancient and apocalyptic in its subject-- all told in his signature condensed, rhythmic poetic prose.

[David · Rating 5 out of 5]

Tyler constructs a beautifully stark world in beautifully stark prose in this book. He does marvelous things in seemingly simple sentences with rhythm and repetition. All the startling images and changing forms you expect from Tyler are here. He does not disappoint.

[Michael Seidlinger · Rating 4 out of 5]

Stylistically chaotic prose for a chaotic end to the tired old world that we (used to) know.

Surely one of J. A. Tyler's best yet!