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Praise for Tinkers

"Tinkers is truly remarkable. It achieves and sustains a unique fusion of language and perception. Its fine touch plays over the textured richnesses of very modest lives, evoking again and again a frisson of deep recognition, a sense of primal encounter with the brilliant, elusive world of the senses. It confers on the reader the best privilege fiction can afford, the illusion of ghostly proximity to other human souls." — Marilynne Robinson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gilead and Home

"Tinkers is a remarkable piece of work... I particularly admire the balancing act between the visionary and ecstatic and the exquisitely precise. [It is] fascinating—and sometimes horrific—to read, and is cumulatively moving because it is woven together into the single quilt of our humanity." — Barry Unsworth, Booker Prize-winning author of The Ruby in Her Navel

"Paul Harding's Tinkers is not just a novel—though it is a brilliant novel. It's an instruction manual on how to look at nearly everything. Harding takes the back off to show you the miraculous ticking of the natural world, the world of clocks, generations of family, an epileptic brain, the human soul. In astounding language sometimes seemingly struck by lightning, sometimes as tight and complicated as clockwork, Harding shows how enormous fiction can be, and how economical. Read this book and marvel. — Elizabeth McCracken, author of Niagara Falls All Over Again