The School on Heart's Content Road - Hardcover

Brave, passionate and raw, fiercely written . . . A profoundly human novel . . . Absolutely one of a kind. "USA Today"
A roiling stew of cajoling comedy, political diatribe, and incisively rendered portraits of rural poverty and despair. "The Washington Post"
A triumph of characterization and color . . . Vivid . . . Breathtaking . . . Enjoy the ride. "The Christian Science Monitor "
[A] vibrant pastiche of a novel . . . [with] energy-on-the-loose prose and anti-establishment atmospherics. "Chicago Tribune "
Carolyn Chute emerges as a modern-day Dickensian voice for the losers in class warfare. . . . ["The School on Heart's Content Road" is her]best book to date. . . . We have our Dickens now. "San Diego Union Tribune"
Raw and strong and vivid, with deep resounding echoes of Faulkner and Upton Sinclair . . . Chute s a scientist, brilliant and mad, lighting matches under beakers, mixing compounds, breaking words into their smallest divisible parts. "The Los Angeles Times"
Like a ferocious bulletin from an alternate universetumbling, pell-mell, brilliant and strangecomes this explosive, discomfiting . . . beautiful novel. "The New York Times Book Review"
Conscience-altering . . . Chute bares a hidden America . . . [offering] perspectives on the need for justice and mercy, a safe house for the heart. "O, the Oprah Magazine""

"Brave, passionate and raw, fiercely written . . . A profoundly human novel . . . Absolutely one of a kind."--USA Today

"A roiling stew of cajoling comedy, political diatribe, and incisively rendered portraits of rural poverty and despair."--The Washington Post

"A triumph of characterization and color . . . Vivid . . . Breathtaking . . . Enjoy the ride."--The Christian Science Monitor

"[A] vibrant pastiche of a novel . . . [with] energy-on-the-loose prose and anti-establishment atmospherics."--Chicago Tribune

"Carolyn Chute emerges as a modern-day Dickensian voice for the losers in class warfare. . . . [The School on Heart's Content Road is her]best book to date. . . . We have our Dickens now."--San Diego Union Tribune

"Raw and strong and vivid, with deep resounding echoes of Faulkner and Upton Sinclair . . . Chute's a scientist, brilliant and mad, lighting matches under beakers, mixing compounds, breaking words into their smallest divisible parts."--The Los Angeles Times

"Like a ferocious bulletin from an alternate universe--tumbling, pell-mell, brilliant and strange--comes this explosive, discomfiting . . . beautiful novel."--The New York Times Book Review

"Conscience-altering . . . Chute bares a hidden America . . . [offering] perspectives on the need for justice and mercy, a safe house for the heart."--O, the Oprah Magazine