William Lychack

This spare, meticulous novel opens out like a poem, its deceptively casual images bearing an entire universe of weight. —The New York Times Book Review

The Wasp Eater has an uncanny precision about love and forgiveness. It is one of the best narratives I have ever read about those who are unforgiven, and the effect of this refusal on a child. —Charles Baxter

The Wasp Eater is superb. Such perfection of tone, such clarity of emotion, such spare and beautiful language. —Andrea Barrett

Lychack simply makes a reader feel the sadness inherent in this whole buinsess of trying to connect with other human beings. —Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air

Williams Lychack has given us a fierce elegy on the romance of family life, clear-eyed and immediate in its lyric brevity.
—Patricia Hampl

In The Wasp Eater, William Lychack's deeply moving first novel, we watch as a 10-year-old boy navigates the emotional minefield in which his family spends its last days together. —Anne Stephenson, USA Today

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	This spare, meticulous novel opens out like a poem, its deceptively casual images bearing an entire universe of weight. —The New York Times Book Review The Wasp Eater has an uncanny precision about love and forgiveness. It is one of the best narratives I have ever read about those who are unforgiven, and the effect of this refusal on a child. —Charles Baxter The Wasp Eater is superb. Such perfection of tone, such clarity of emotion, such spare and beautiful language. —Andrea Barrett Lychack simply makes a reader feel the sadness inherent in this whole buinsess of trying to connect with other human beings. —Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air Williams Lychack has given us a fierce elegy on the romance of family life, clear-eyed and immediate in its lyric brevity. —Patricia Hampl In The Wasp Eater, William Lychack's deeply moving first novel, we watch as a 10-year-old boy navigates the emotional minefield in which his family spends its last days together. —Anne Stephenson, USA Today