When a reviewer calls a book the “best book of 2017,” it gets our attention. Especially when that book is none other than Keith Rosson’s The Mercy of the Tide. So we wanted to share this wonderful review of a wonderful book with you! Thanks so much Brandi Dawn Cornelius.
SHUT UP, KEITH ROSSON, WITH YOUR BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL SENSE OF PLACE. I mean, really. To do such lovely things with unlovely images in a way that provides just enough magic without dragging the reader down the author’s own self-indulgent path is extremely difficult. I know this, because I am attempting to do it all the time in my own writing. I tip my hat. Hell, Keith Rosson can straight up have the whole hat if he continues to write sentences such as these for me to read.
Brandi Dawn Cornelius, POSLIT
Keith Rosson is the author of the novels The Mercy of the Tide (2017, Meerkat Press) and Smoke City (2018, Meerkat Press). His short fiction has appeared in Cream City Review, PANK, Redivider, December, and more. An advocate of both public libraries and non-ironic adulation of the cassette tape, he can be found at keithrosson.com.
