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White Nights In Split Town City

“Annie DeWitt takes us to the strange and stirring depths of language and shows us, with equal parts pain and beauty, how we really feel. A bold, word-drunk novel by a wonderful new writer.” —Ben Marcus

“Annie DeWitt’s fiction, with its lush precision, its daring leaps, its sly wit and rhythmic beauty, breaks hearts and takes names and names a vivid world anew.”

—Sam Lipsyte

“White Nights in Split Town City is a ferocious tumble of a book, told from the wild edge of the 90s. Follow the sharp wonder of Jean’s voice through the electrifying night of this novel and you will emerge breathless, exhilarated, changed.

Annie DeWitt is a daring and spectacular new talent.” —Laura van den Berg

“Thirteen year-old Jean is the luminous, clear hearted voice and eyes of Annie DeWitt’s gorgeous debut novel. Though this slim novel takes place in a single summer, on a small dirt road, in a rural town—this couldn’t be a bigger or bolder story. DeWitt renders the known world with originality of language and vision.

Every page of this book is surprising and wonderfully moving.” —Victoria Redel

“In White Nights in Split Town City Ann Dewitt writes of a family during a single summer, both mundane and transformative. In scene after lovely and telling scene she mines the subtle emotions between mother and daughter This is a sad and beautiful story. I was engaged and enchanted from the first pages.”

—Darcey Steinke

“Annie Dewitt is like Kesey in the Sometimes a Great Notion era mated by Didion in her Play It As It Lays years. That much intensity, that much might and clear minded provoking of the story to careen forth through her hungry hammering of prose and the keen eye of her heart. That middle finger from the arm of the boat on the river, too, is present, and yet there is warmth and remembrance and truth from DeWitt and the eras that are all her own, the 90’s we grew of age in. This book will become a classic for this era.”

—Luke Goebel

“A very cool blue-collar country novel filled with such strong sentences that I could feel the dirt-road dust and summer sun on my skin.” —Shane Jones