New Blurb for Pale

I'm humbled beyond words to share this blurb for Far Beyond the Pale that a writer I've admired for years was kind enough to lend me. Forthcoming May 2015 with Fiction Southeast Press.

“In FAR BEYOND THE PALE Daren Dean grandly and seamlessly joins terror and tenderness, gravity and sublime lightness, and he does so through the narrative voice of a boy so endearingly and vulnerably real that he turns into lost kin you keep worrying about long after the book has been put down. Dean writes like the laureate of fallen angels. He is an important new voice in our literary culture.”—Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer-Prize winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, Severance, The Hot Country . . .