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PRAISE FOR THE VOICEOVER ARTIST

“The Voiceover Artist connects a community of disparate Chicagoans—rising stars and fading elderly, drunks and dreamers, performers and mutes—who yearn to find their voices and prove their value to the world. In a chain of intimate, first-person narratives, each character takes a turn at the microphone, confessing to the reader the secrets that separate them from the people they love. The Voiceover Artist is a compelling and unforgettable exploration of the power of the human voice and the human heart.”

—Valerie Laken, AUTHOR OF DREAM HOUSE AND SEPARATE KINGDOMS

“With this voice-driven (literally) novel about a young man (literally) finding his voice, Dave Reidy moves into the front ranks of Chicago writers, Catholic writers, writers about stuttering, and writers about sibling rivalry: a list that will give you some idea of his range and literary ranginess. The Voiceover Artist is winning, smart, and generous.”

—David Leavitt , TWO-TIME PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FINALIST AND AUTHOR OF THE TWO HOTEL FRANCFORTS: A NOVEL

“I often wonder what happens in a person’s life to change him from a boy to a man. But brothers don’t change from a brother into something else. They remain brothers. As a man, being and having a brother might start to feel claustrophobic. No way out. Dave Reidy’s The Voiceover Artist examines this from every angle. This novel is brotherhood, is boyhood, is manhood. How poignant that these characters are searching for their voices while attempting to use these voices to make a living. There is family, life, raw realness to be found in their father’s stutter, in their jealousy and love for each other, in every word of Reidy’s book.”

—Lindsay Hunter , AUTHOR OF UGLY GIRLS

“The Voiceover Artist is tender and beguiling. It is a wonderful story, told with artful directness about family, faith, forgiveness, and the large human struggle we all face to find our true voice.”

—Scott Turow, AUTHOR OF TEN BEST-SELLING WORKS OF FICTION, INCLUDING PRESUMED INNOCENT AND IDENTICAL

“My first thought picking this book up was what if Binx Bolling [of Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer] were really Catholic and winds up not glib in New Orleans but stuttering in Chicago? This is a completely errant, if not arrant, idea. The Voiceover Artist is a broad, ambitious, multifaceted, exacting set of portraits of some very twisted folk. They are their own analysts, viciously jockeying to win. Mr. Reidy can be frightening.”

—Padgett Powell , WHITING AWARD WINNER AND AUTHOR OF SIX NOVELS, INCLUDING YOU & ME

“Woven into the middle of this captivating story is the most accurate depiction of the Chicago improv world that I’ve ever read. When you open The Voiceover Artist, you can smell the stale beer and hear the clever quips.”

—Keegan-Michael Key , CO-CREATOR AND CO-STAR OF THE COMEDY CENTRAL SERIES KEY & PEELE

“Rich and varied . . . an energetic parade of characters and voices . . . ”

—Kirkus Reviews

“Moving and honest. [ . . . ] The love-hate relationship between Simon and Connor is a stirring depiction of a troubled sibling bond.”

—Booklist