My good reader friend from Colorado just put down this book and called me up to rave about this title. Surprisingly I hadn’t heard of it, nor was it in the Minuteman system anywhere! If you liked The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime years ago, this character also is trying to do the right thing but struggles with the limited pieces of this modern world as best he can with often very humorous outcomes. Minuteman now owns copies.

“I can’t rave enough about this novel. The Sideways Life of Denny Voss is simply magical, a heart-wrenching, unconventional tale that moved me from laughter to tears. Denny is a true original, an authentically portrayed protagonist who leaps off the page. His story is irresistible. I want to know him. I want to be his friend. And even though the feel-good ending was perfect, I didn’t want his story to end.” ―Patricia Wood, PhD in disability studies, author of Lottery

“Original, deftly crafted, and told with author Holly Kennedy’s distinctive and narrative driven storytelling style…Unreservedly recommended.” ―Midwest Book Review

“The Sideways Life of Denny Voss will be a modern classic. Kennedy’s Denny is not idealized. Instead, he is fully revealed, with a clarity not seen in the pages of a novel since Carson McCullers wrote The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. His story is a meditation on justice, bigotry, gun violence, and equity. Read it, perhaps as I did, all night, in one sitting, then look deep into your own community―and into your own heart.” ―Jacquelyn Mitchard, New York Times bestselling author of The Deep End of the Ocean

“The Sideways Life of Denny Voss is a coming-of-age story that ticks all my boxes. Beautifully written, authentic characters that will tug at your heart, and the kind of story that will keep you turning the pages long after lights out. It’s the best novel I’ve read in a very long time. Don’t miss this one!” ―Lesley Kagen, New York Times bestselling author of Whistling in the Dark and Every Now and Then

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