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A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip is 1) a truly stunning hybrid - a memoir told with the imaginative vibrancy and the uncanny precision of the best fiction; 2) a coming-of-age story that feels absolutely universal, even as Mr. Brockmeier's retrospective eye is grass-blade-precise about his own particulars; 3) hilarious; 4) devastating; 5) awesome-beyond-all-adjectives. If you are already a Kevin Brockmeier fan, this book will floor you, and flood you with a torrent of your own memories from the terrifying, electric threshold between childhood and adulthood. If you're new to his work, this is a phenomenal place to start., Karen Russell, , bestselling Author of Swamplandia!

A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip is 1) a truly stunning hybrid - a memoir told with the imaginative vibrancy and the uncanny precision of the best fiction; 2) a coming-of-age story that feels absolutely universal, even as Mr. Brockmeier's retrospective eye is grass-blade-precise about his own particulars; 3) hilarious; 4) devastating; 5) awesome-beyond-all-adjectives. If you are already a Kevin Brockmeier fan, this book will floor you, and flood you with a torrent of your own memories from the terrifying, electric threshold between childhood and adulthood. If you're new to his work, this is a phenomenal place to start., Karen Russell, , bestselling Author of Swamplandia!

In A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip, Brockmeier - surely one of our great writers - has captured perfectly that hinge-creak, aching moment in adolescence when you are alive to everything, but comprehend very little of it - when the joy of figuring out who and what you are collides with the dawning of shame and embarrassment and self-consciousness. When there is a lot of feeling, but very little understanding. In other words: 7th grade. Here that particular year is rendered in such lovingly vivid detail - the year is so perfectly remembered - you feel, after reading it, that the memory in fact belongs to you. I loved it., Ethan Rutherford, , Author of The Peripatetic Coffin

In A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip, Brockmeier - surely one of our great writers - has captured perfectly that hinge-creak, aching moment in adolescence when you are alive to everything, but comprehend very little of it - when the joy of figuring out who and what you are collides with the dawning of shame and embarrassment and self-consciousness. When there is a lot of feeling, but very little understanding. In other words: 7th grade. Here that particular year is rendered in such lovingly vivid detail - the year is so perfectly remembered - you feel, after reading it, that the memory in fact belongs to you. I loved it., Ethan Rutherford, , Author of The Peripatetic Coffin