"THE FATES WILL FIND THEIR WAY is.about the way our imaginations can carry us from a dispiriting selfishness to a nascent empathy, and the way we continue to inflict--or even just observe--pain until that empathy arrives." - Jim Shepard "The tension builds throughout the book, keeping the reader eager to find out what happened. This debut from McSweeney''s award winner Pittard is smart, eerie, and suspenseful and will appeal to fans of novels combining those elements." - Library Journal "It''s a tour de force for a young woman to follow the attitudes and changes and expectations of these several men as they grow older. I would recommend it to anyone." - Christopher Tilghman, author of Mason''s Retreat "A bracing debut. Ripe with a sense of danger to the last page, th stories woven among the boys who remembered Nora Lindell create a captivating tale of lives unlived.
" - The Onion AV Club "The architecture of the narrative is cemented in the solipsism of the boys/men.As readers work their way through the novel, they might try guessing what could have happened to Nora, but the ending is a surprise." - Bookreporter.com "Pittard does an amazing job with setting up middle American suburbia in the latter half of the 20th century. The story doesn''t shy away from heavy subjects. but it doesn''t use them as emotional gimmicks either. A very solid debut, worth picking up." - Sacramento Book Review "Some of you will be familiar with Ms.
Pittard''s particular magic. This is a stunning first novel told in the first person plural with devastating results." - McSweeney''s "An exceptional first novel.of "what ifs" [and] a beautifully crafted portrait of men slipping almost imperceptibly from childhood to middle-age. It''s hard to imagine a better debut this year." - Financial Times "THE FATES WILL FIND THEIR WAY is concerned with searching questions rather than the relief of resolution. What might have been a frustrating approach in a lesser novel proves compelling in this one." - Boston Globe "[Pittard] spurs rumination on the moments in which we witness the tragedies of others and somehow manage to wrap events around ourselves.
" - Cleveland Plain Dealer "An emotionally taut and elegantly written novel." - Los Angeles Times "A dark story of adolescence gone awry.In playing out each of the theories about [character] Nora''s disappearance, Pittard perfectly illustrates the hysteria surrounding any such disaster, and the ways in which very detail can be twisted and elevated to create endings to a story that fundamentally has none." - BookPage "Engaging and vigorously told.I heard all sorts of echoes from other books, from Alice Sebold''s THE LOVELY BONES and some of Joyce Carol Oates'' stories and novels.Pittard''s excellent first novel satisfies this demand in spades." - Chicago Tribune "THE FATES WILL FIND THEIR WAY is about a disappearance, but it''s also about the difficulty of growing up, of moving into adulthood and letting go. It''s a brilliant and beautifully written work.
" - The Millions "An eerie, arresting novel.a bold, imaginative, deeply psychological debut novel, a mystery in the finest sense of the word." - Minneapolis Star Tribune "A wistful novel about how little we know of one another, but how eager we are to tape together a collage of rumors, assumptions and fantasies to answer questions we''re too young, too cowardly or too polite to ask. Chilling and touching.harrowingly wise about the melancholy process of growing up." - Washington Post "What emerges from the narration instead of facts are exquisite details that translate instantly into memory." - New York Times Book Review.