PRAISE:
“One of the most intense — and moving — stories that will grace the bookstores in 2023 … what Daniel Kraus has created here is something that can’t be quantified.”
—Cemetery Dance
“An absolute triumph, a masterpiece of suspense, emotion, and flat-out terror … It’s one of this year’s can’t-miss books, and a journey you won’t soon forget.”
—Paste Magazine
“Kraus turns the literal guts of this novel into a haunted house, a torture chamber, a church and a uterus for belated rebirth. There is nothing else quite like Whalefall.”
—New Scientist
“A brutal, unsparing, wildly uplifting book. The sheer buoyancy had me breathless by the end.”
—Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Ghost Eaters and Wendell & Wild
“Astoundingly great. Whalefall is, quite simply, a beautiful novel—a must-read story of the sea, the nature of awe, and the briny relationships between fathers and sons.”
—Gillian Flynn, #1 New York Times bestselling author
“Brave, bold, epic, propulsive. Whalefall is a deeply moving thriller that holds a planet’s worth of hope in the pit of its stomach.”
—Joshua Ferris, National Book Award finalist
“The primordial nightmare at the core of Whalefall is fantastically gripping. A character study developed in the most intense crucible imaginable, Kraus’s latest novel is smart, surreal, and powerfully humane.”
—Owen King, New York Times bestselling author
“A masterpiece. I haven't felt so alive reading a book in a long, long time.”
—Alissa Nutting, author of Made for Love and creator of the HBO Max series
“One of our oldest stories, one of our greatest fears, and one of our most capable writers. Stranger things than being swallowed by a whale have probably happened, but they've rarely been told so well.”
—Stephen Graham Jones, New York Times bestselling author
“Whalefall is a mind-blowing, take-your-breath-away adventure, but it’s also a tender and moving story of the relationship between a father and son. Daniel Kraus is a writer I greatly admire. He can do anything, and does.”
—Dan Chaon, National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Sleepwalk
“Unexpectedly emotional and wildly entertaining, Whalefall is the tense revamp of Jonah’s tale you didn’t know you needed.”
—Gabino Iglesias, award-winning author of The Devil Takes You Home