Census - Hardcover

"Ball's latest is an intensely moving and dazzlingly imagined journey...This novel is a devastatingly powerful call for understanding and compassion."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"An ethereal meditation on love, the duty of a caretaker, and mortality."--Kirkus Reviews

"Ball writes dystopia and fabulism with a hushed, poetic grace; as with his other work, Census promises to be beautifully and precisely wrought."--AV Club

"In sync with Italo Calvino, Paul Auster, and Howard Norman, Ball takes a matter-of-fact approach to surreal situations, which he deepens with finely rendered and realistic thoughts and emotions. His latest mysterious, mesmerizing, and insightful fairy tale... [is] mind-bending, gorgeously well told, and profoundly moving."--Booklist (starred review)

"With echoes of Paul Auster and Cormac McCarthy, Jesse Ball's road novel is anything but traditional. The prolific, award-winning author tells the story of a father and his son who has Down syndrome, bringing out their connection in luminous and unexpected ways."--Entertainment Weekly

"Ball is too smart... to rely on cheap tricks of sentimentality...the result is an understated feat."--Washington Post

"Emotionally riveting and shot through with the most pressing issues of our time, Ball's exploration of humanity in modern America is not to be missed."--Popsugar

"Strange and wonderful ... A melancholy and grief-filled book, Census also serves a healthy helping of compassion. I highly recommend it for fans of Paul Auster and Samantha Hunt."--LitHub

"Heart-breaking."--BBC.com

"Each new book from Jesse Ball reveals a new facet of his abilities as a writer; each one takes bold structural risks even as it ventures into heart-rending territories."--Vol 1Brooklyn