WORD

• “Reading Leni Zumas’ debut novel The Listeners puts one in mind of the Boston Molasses Disaster of 1919. Not because the novel is messy—it isn’t—but because it contains the same rare combination of death, absurdity, and beauty, and a tempo slow enough to allow the reader full appreciation of all three.” - The Rumpus.net
• “Despite all the dark subject material, there is humor throughout.” - Julia Bartz, Full Stop
• “[Zumas’s] profoundly disquieting debut novel, The Listeners, portrays a world twisted on its axis by loss.” - Powells.com
• “Zumas’s tone is crisply naturalistic, slightly off center, and downright surreal, sometimes all at once, though often starting as one and drifting into another.” - Publishers Weekly

Come find out for yourself tomorrow (Tuesday, the 18th) at 7 p.m.