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“Tom's Crossing” is set in 1982 in a small Utah county and its surrounding mountains. The protagonist, 15-year-old Kalin March, a new resident of town, promises his dying friend that he will save two horses from being slaughtered. Friend Tom Gatestone accompanies Carlin from beyond the grave as a ghost.

“Tom's Crossing” is beautifully written in a unique style that feels like listening to a ghost story told by a very smart friend around a campfire.

If you've read Danielewski's House of Leaves, The Familiar, or one of his other works, you've probably seen a variety of fonts, inverted text, random images, academic citations, and other strange formatting. But you won't actually find any of those quirks here.

“Tom's Crossing” is structured and presented like a traditional novel, paragraph after paragraph—although Danielski italics replaces dialogue rather than quotations. The traditional format means you won't find large white spaces, so Tom's Crossing is far away His longest novel by word count. But if you're not intimidated by the staggering page count, I think you'll find Tom's Crossing to be Danielewski's most approachable work of fiction. I got past the halfway point this week and really enjoyed it.

But if you don’t want to take Steven’s word for it; the only blurb on the back of the dust jacket comes from Stephen King:

“This is an amazing work of fiction. I absolutely loved it. At the heart of the story you find a bloody pursuit story and two brave and resourceful children. But there is more. I was immersed in it. Never read a book like it.”