Million Heavens

John Brandon was raised on the Gulf Coast of Florida, and has worked at a lumber mill, a windshield warehouse, and a Coca-Cola distributor. Acclaim for his first novel, Arkansas, led to his appointment as John & Renee Grisham Fellow in Creative Writing at the University of Mississippi.

[John Brandon] deftly renders a desert wilderness where human hearts are compelled to seek isolation from the pains of the world, but tend to find connectedness despite themselves Publishers Weekly A surreal exploration of the origin of inspiration, of what connects humans to each other and to their surroundings. ...Brandon's gift for conjuring a powerful sense of place has never been stronger as the high-desert sands invade every nook and cranny of the lives of his characters Booklist John Brandon is a great young writer who can - and probably will - do just about anything San Francisco Chronicle Wondrous... More than once I handed A Million Heavens to a friend and watched the rhythms compel him or her into the thickness of a paragraph, then onto the next page... I had to stop reading to actually pace, marvelling at what one writer can imagine, what a novel is capable of holding New York Times Book Review John Brandon is my favourite new writer. This is a writer to watch, to reread, and to envy Tom Franklin The interplay of fantasy and reality permeating this lattice of storylines renders this a richly nuanced and multidimensional read The Lady