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Book SynopsisA young boy's flights of fancy triumph over family tragedy
Trade ReviewAlternately funny, entertaining, and heartbreaking, The Swan is a fictional memoir about love, death and what a family can—and cannot—endure.
* Publishers Weekly *
A surreal study of a grief observed indirectly, The Swan serves as a testament to the unbridled power of childhood vision, even and especially in the wake of tragedy.
* Bloom Magazine *
This is the principle pleasure of reading The Swan: Cohee delights in word play and humor that points to larger thematic concerns regarding the family's rift in the wake of a child's death.
* andrewsbookclub.com *
There's something ironic, compelling, and deeply sad about hearing a story of mortality and unspeakable loss unfold in the chirpy, attention-deficit, occasionally hilarious voice of a fourth-grader. . . . The voice isn't a gimmick —it's the point of the book, and it works brilliantly.
* www.eastbayexpress.com *
Funny, poignant and as endearing as its central character, The Swan is a wholly original tribute to childhood resilience.
* San Jose Mercury News *
Had Kurt Vonnegut, William Saroyan, J.D. Salinger, Carlos Castaneda, Raymond Carver and James Thurber ever gathered at a writer's workshop to co-author a short novel, the product might well have been The Swan.
* Terre Haute Tribune Star *
The secret protectors and spymasters who populate Aaron's disintegrating world in Cohee's The Swan are equally funny and heartbreaking. I've already reread this outstanding first novel.
* Wapsipinicon Almanac *
