The Blurry Years [Paperback]

*A Best Book of 2018?Entropy

Krisemans is a new voice to celebrate.Publishers Weekly

The Blurry Yearsis a powerful and unorthodox coming-of-age story from an assured new literary voice, featuring a stirringly twisted mother-daughter relationship, set against the sleazy, vividly-drawn backdrop of late-seventies and early-eighties Florida.

Calliewho ages from six to eighteen over the course of the bookleads a scattered childhood, moving from cars to strangers houses to the sand-dusted apartments of the tourist towns that litter the Florida coastline.

Callies is a story about what its like to grow up too fast and absorb too much, to watch adults behaving badly; what its like to be simultaneously in thrall to and terrified of the mother who is the only family you've ever known, who moves you from town to town to leave her own mistakes behind.

With precision and poetry, Kriseman's moving tale of a young girl struggling to find her way in the world is potent, and, ultimately, triumphant.

The painful pleasure of this slim work is that it treats Callies various leaps toward adulthoodwhether via the faintly sweet doldrums of everyday life or the extreme episodes that will forever stick with herwith equal care.
Jane Yong Kim,The Atlantic

Not simply another coming of age novel,The Blurry Yearshas a momentum not simply driven by narrative but by a combination of place (Florida itself is a vital character) and voice. Kriseman brings Cassie to life on the page, finding in her journey the story of a life coming into its own and freeing itself of the past. It is a shimmering evocation of adolescence and marks the unveiling of an exciting new voice.
John Toews,?McNally Robinson Booksellers

A languorous, melancholy slip of a novel, Eleanor Kriseman'sThe Blurry Yearsrecalls the equally composed andlĂ3