Between Them: Remembering My Parents - Hardcover

“[A] novel about big truths told by a writer with clear vision...solid, satisfying craftsmanship. This is a Richard Ford novel in the tradition of his earlier work. It also is a coming-of-age story, and a story about the discovery of identity.” (Washington Independent Review of Books)

“[A] deeply felt and magnificently imagined work...With Canada, Ford has given us his deepest exploration yet of weakness and betrayal set amid a boy’s coming of age. It is a memorable novel, suffused with love, sorrow and regret.” (Austin American-Statesman)

“...you don’t read the Bascombe books for plot. You read them for Ford’s gleaming sentences, which in Let Me Be Frank are as burnished as ever, and for the quality of Frank’s questing intelligence, which persists in sensing what’s coming.” (USA Today)

“[Subtle] stories told with wit and grace... Ford has established himself as one of contemporary America’s most interesting storytellers. Let Me be Frank with You does nothing to diminish this well-deserved reputation.” (New York Journal of Books)

“[Canada]confirms his position as one of the finest stylists and most humane storytellers in America... his most elegiac and profound book...” (Washington Post)

“Elegant prose . . . unassuming but sweetly profound phraseology. . . . The most moving thing he’s written.” (The Globe and Mail)

“While we’ve seen versions of Ford’s parents in his stories and novels, to have them here in their own right is thrilling, heartbreaking and ultimately enlivening.” (Toronto Star)