Border Songs by Jim Lynch
2012 Everybody Reads Selection
“Wonderful…tender, sad and leavened with wit, Border Songs reads like something written by a more efficient Richard Russo." — Ron Charles, book editor for The Washington Post
"Border Songs" is one of the more inventive and unique novels of recent years. Lynch's dexterous handling of multiple voices and storylines makes Border Songs a book that goes by all too quickly." — Rege Behe, The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
"Lynch's comic borderland is not only palpable, it is richly metaphoric. Comparisons with Ken Kesey and Tom Robbins are not only inevitable, they are welcome." — The Globe and Mail (Canada)
"Lynch observes like a journalist and writes like a poet. ... Brandon is one of the most remarkable characters created by a Northwest author in recent memory." — Mary Ann Gwinn, Seattle Times book editor
"Enthralling ... Lynch plays exquisitely with his theme of division and its consequences." — Maclean's (Canada)
"A fascinating look at the confluence of small-town life, the global drug trade and illegal immigration, and it places Jim Lynch at the forefront of Northwest writers to watch." — Willamette Week
"Lynch has broken through to the edge of literary stardom." — Jeff Baker, The Oregonian
“Border Songs is one of the more inventive and unique novels of recent years.”
— The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Jim Lynch is the author of The Highest Tide and Border Songs, both of which were adapted for the stage.
The Highest Tide won the 2006 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award and became a bestseller in the United States and the United Kingdom. His second novel, Border Songs, won the Washington State Book Award for Fiction in 2010 and was a finalist for the American Booksellers Award for Best Fiction.. Before becoming a full-time novelist Jim wrote for newspapers throughout the Northwest and beyond, winning the Livingston Young Journalist Award for National Reporting. He now lives in Olympia, Washington with his wife and daughter.
