FINALIST 2015 - Alberta Readers' Choice Awards "Powerful, at times lyrical, Come Back gives voice to the depth of familial love and the strength of the human desire for answers in the face of inconsolable loss." --Joanne Epp, Winnipeg Free Press   "Reading Come Back , I couldn't help but think how refreshing it is, how great a relief, that we are finally talking more freely about depression and suicide. It is a serious, thoughtful portrait of a father who has suffered the ultimate loss. --Elizabeth Withey, Edmonton Journal   " Come Back 's tone is kind, and maintains an ethic of honesty. Even its starkest passages are underwritten with a kind of grave acceptance. But Wiebe's principal achievement in Come Back is his avoidance of consolation. There is no cure for the pain of premature loss. Longing for the missing loved one will tug at the heart, call that command in perpetuity.

Wiebe makes us attend to the beauty of the call." -- Julienne Isaacs, The Globe and Mail   "Poetic new novel. Wiebe is one Canada's most accomplished writers. Gab's chronicle of loneliness makes for painful reading. Through Wiebe's exquisite words we are made to imagine how his son's suffering torments Hal. Come Back is a novel of 'ruthless memory' in which a father walks through the valley of guilt and grief in search of redemption and salvation. Come Back lingers in the reader's mind and heart as a powerful and deeply felt spiritual biography--a father's anguished love letter to a lost son." --Robert Reid, Waterloo Regional Record   "[Wiebe has] created a very real portrait of a grief-stricken father trying to piece together his son from unreliable scraps of information.

" --Debbie Waldman, Edmonton Journal .