The Boiling Season - Hardcover

."..luminous and important...Christopher Hebert is a serious new novelist, one who's offered us a real gift-a mesmerizing entertainment that uplifts, educates, moves, and changes us."--Laura Kasischke, author of IN A PERFECT WORLD and THE RAISING

"Hebert demonstrates an ambition and clarity of vision that is rare in a first novel...A rich, synthesized imagining of the personal history of a country torn asunder."--Kirkus Reviews

."..a tour de force of restrained, unreliable first-person narration, a love letter to a beautiful, forgotten place, and a visceral depiction of Haitian political upheaval...A truly auspicious debut."--Michael Knight, author of THE TYPIST and THE DIVINING ROD

"THE BOILING SEASON is a beguiling political novel...Hebert conjures this strife-torn island-at once fictitious, but also hauntingly familiar-with uncanny precision and compelling lucidity."--Peter Ho Davies, author of THE WELSH GIRL

"With an unforced formality of diction...the whole is told with such clear-eyed compassion that the reader comes to honor failure-one mark of this novel's success."--Nicholas Delbanco, author of SHERBROOKES

"Hypnotically fascinating...It's remarkable to see an American novel so profoundly steeped in the tradition of the great Haitian writers of the twentieth century."--Madison Smartt Bell, author of ALL SOULS' RISING

"THE BOILING SEASON asks all the right questions, and it answers those questions beautifully, with great dramatic force."--Charles Baxter, author of THE FEAST OF LOVE AND GRYPHON: NEW AND SELECTED STORIES

"Hebert conjures a vibrant atmosphere, as rich as a character as any inhabitant, whether in the fetid stink of the slums or the cool, detached opulence of the most affluent homes..."--Booklist

"Allegories about the morality of international development projects are rarely as subtle and lyrical as Christopher Hebert's debut novel, 'The Boiling Season.'"--San Francisco Chronicle

"'The Boiling Season' is a subtly crafted novel and an auspicious debut for Hebert."--Dayton Daily News

Growing up in the slums of a politically volatile Caribbean island, Alexandre, dreaming of escape, takes a position as caretaker of a crumbling estate purchased by a wealthy foreign businesswoman and cuts ties with his past until the war he has ignored invades his opulent Eden. 25,000 first printing.