Post Praises Ethan Canin's Latest

Washington Post book critic Ron Charles calls America America Ethan Canin's "best novel" in a June 29 Book World review. "America America isn't hawking any particular partisan agenda," Charles writes, "but like other great political novels, it's a story in which the audacity of hope confronts the tenacity of power — and loses." Naming the book "a worthy successor to Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men," the critic concludes that the novel "couldn't have arrived at a more auspicious moment than this season of potentially epochal political change." The complete review is accessible here. Don't miss your opportunity to meet Canin and hear him speak about the book on Wednesday evening, September 24, at George Mason University.