“What a joy it is to read a writer who so confidently prioritizes character and language above gimmick or twist… Johnson goes far deeper than before in her examination of love and fear and separation, and as a result creates a work that will endure with readers long after they have closed its pages.” —The Guardian
“A sweeping epic that is miraculously imagined and prismatically rendered in gorgeous prose. This book feels like a living, breathing thing, a creature all its own. Utterly stunning.” —Rachel Yoder, author of Nightbitch
“Looping through many years and many lives as it explores caregiving and failures of caregiving, this book is at once quiet and intense, at once devastating and heartening. I was carried by Johnson’s potent prose, and I was moved by these intersecting perspectives.” —Helen Phillips, author of The Need
“Long Wave, Daisy Johnson’s best novel in an already spectacular career, uncovers heart-rending truths in a multi-generational story of secrets, obsessions, and love. Hopeful, tragic, beautiful, captivating, consuming. A remarkable achievement—such depth, but also what a page-turner!” —Jeff VanderMeer, author of Annihilation
“Johnson writes of motherhood as a ferocious toppling, family as lightning that brachiates and crackles through a life. This is a novel of startling force. Readers will feel Long Wave in their teeth and bones.” —C Pam Zhang, author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold
“An astonishingly beautiful novel that remains grounded in the profound relationships between its characters. Long Wave is a triumph.” —Kaliane Bradley, author of The Ministry of Time
“Long Wave has the gravity of an epic… a gripping mystery and an unflinchingly observed treatise on the maelstrom of motherhood.”—Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Mercies
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