Fourth of July Creek: A Novel

"This is a hell of a great book."-----Esquire

"[A] remarkable first novel..."----Shelf Awareness

"First novels don't come much more confidently written or fully imagined than this."--New York Times

"This is a hell of a great book."---Esquire

"Breathtaking...heartbreaking...Henderson's immersive, colorful style makes this scenic journey worthwhile. He's a curious kind of hard-boiled poet - part Raymond Chandler, part Denis Johnson."--Entertainment Weekly (Grade A)

"The best book I've read so far this year...Henderson choreographs these parts so masterfully that the novel is never less than wholly engaging... All week I was looking for opportunities to slip back into these pages and follow the trials of this rural social worker."--Washington Post

."..a masterful debut...we find ourselves rooting for these deeply human characters in the end."--The Oregonian (Portland)

"Fourth of July Creek is an extremely dark book, but Henderson's lyrical sentences lend an elegance-an importance-to the lives of his fictional children. By tenderly portraying horrible family secrets, Henderson is able to illuminate the richness and possibility in even the most painful lives."--Kirkus Reviews

"On a political level, Henderson skillfully presages the contemporary political environment in his portrayal of the America of three decades ago. On a deeper level, this dark, compassionate novel finds in Jeremiah's-and Pete's-pain a mirror of everyone's. This is a significant debut."--Library Journal

"Born and raised in Montana, author Smith Henderson knows the terrain and its people, crafting a profoundly American tale that explores our love for freedom, our individualism and the price people sometimes pay."--AARP