Reviews
"From the madhouse, Johnny Truant's mother writes some of the most tender, chilling, faux-psychotic writing I've ever read. This dangerous, lucid, confused but very eloquent lady . . . is playful, apologetic, crazed, paranoid, self-abasing, cunning--a tigress with a gift for gab." --Robert Kelly, The New York Times Book Review " The Whalestoe Letters are dazzling." --Steven Moore, The Washington Post "Danielewski has a songwriter's heart." --John Freeman, Time Out New York, "From the madhouse, Johnny Truant's mother writes some of the most tender, chilling, faux-psychotic writing I've ever read. This dangerous, lucid, confused but very eloquent lady . . . is playful, apologetic, crazed, paranoid, self-abasing, cunning-- a tigress with a gift for gab." --Robert Kelly, The New York Times Book Review "The Whalestoe Letters are dazzling." --Steven Moore, The Washington Post "Danielewski has a songwriter's heart." --John Freeman, Time Out New York