The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky

“Hugely satisfying … [Dornstein’s] journey … reveals not just the truth about the Dornstein brothers but about love, loss, and ultimately life’s inescapable transience.” —The Boston Globe

“Creating narrative coherence out of awful accident is, I suppose, a textbook way of dealing with grief…. [But] Dornstein’s skill as a writer makes the raw material [of his brother’s life] seem tailor-made for the form he has chosen…. It’s a compelling, sad, thoughtful book.” —Nick Hornby, The Believer

“Dornstein has written a book that transcends its subject, becoming a meditation upon not only his brother’s life but his own. All of ours.”—Esquire

“Without an ounce of self-pity or melodrama, [Dornstein] writes with razor-sharp clarity and realizes, as we do, how the chapters themselves are a testament to the enormous love between these two brothers.” —The Washington Post Book World