Garth Greenwell is the emerging writer I have been most excited about in the past decade, mostly for his powerful intellect and smiting prose skills. His work is more closely observed, better detailed, and more elegantly constructed than almost anyone’s, and his talent for a kind of restrained, luminous faithfulness to what he calls “the concrete, particular thing” is impressive. He has written two good novels to date, Cleanness (2020) and What Belongs to You (2016), and with his third, Small Rain, he seems finally to have found a subject large enough for him.
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