That's Not a Feeling

WINNER OF THE 2015 WHITING AWARD FOR FICTION New York Times Editors' Choice Booklist Editors' Choice Dan Josefson is a writer of astounding promise and That's Not a Feeling is a bold, funny, mordant, and deeply intelligent debut. --David Foster Wallace, author of Infinite Jest If That's Not a Feeling were a fifth novel, it would be a triumph. As a first novel, it is an astonishment. Dan Josefson sails along the scary edge of perfection in this book, and does so with style, empathy, compassion, humor, and wisdom. --Tom Bissell, author of The Father of All Things Deft, tempered prose...unornamented, but never flat or blunted, so that the characters, not the sentences, heat the pages. --New York Times Book Review Quirkily brilliant. --Los Angeles Review of Books The prose is matter-of-fact, even placid, and studded with perfectly phrased gems, a cool surface to a work that is rich in feeling. A wonderful and noteworthy debut. --Booklist, Starred Review Funny at times, and more than a little sad, the book's form perfectly mirrors Benjamin's profound sense of dislocation and uncertainty. This is a powerful, haunting look at the alternate universe of an unusual therapeutic community. --Library Journal, Starred Review Metaphor is a hell of a weapon in Dan Josefson's debut That's Not a Feeling...a funny, humane, egalitarian, and gently challenging book, one to quote and roar over, and one that gets better and stranger as it goes. --SF Weekly, Instant Classic This is a book of enormous intelligence, and even more heart. --Jim Shepard, author of Like You'd Understand, Anyway An incredibly daring experiment in characterization, and one that will surely reward many rereadings. --School Library Journal, Adult Books for Teens It's difficult to read this novel and not feel challenged, moved, devastated, and excited for Josefson's next book. --Tottenville Review Not only is this novel a humorous narrative adventure, it's also deeply moving, subtle in its approach, and beautiful in its execution.... A vivid portrait of human frailty and perseverance, one that makes us question what breaks us, what heals us, and what makes that journey worth it. --Tethered by Letters