Joseph Earl Thomas's debut novel God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer has received a glowing write up in the New York Times Book Review. Danez Smith writes:
"[The] characters, and the power of their intimacies with Joseph, disquiet a protagonist already struggling to keep it together. His attempts to love them, connect with them and keep them alive unravel him, culminating in an ending that is absurd, heartbreaking and pitch perfect... Like the work of Jackson Pollock, the novel reveals itself the longer one spends time with it. Keep looking, the chaos will start to show its pattern, its rhythm, its dimension and its awe-inspiring color.”
Read the full review at the link below.