AML Novel Award for best novel published in 2011
"The Scholar of Moab is a hilarious, otherworldly, beautifully strange, and strangely familiar novel, like nothing I have ever read before. In my fruitless search for an adequate comparison, I could only say it's philosophy meets satire meets poetry meets cosmology meets absurdity. For all of its indirectness and fantastical wit, it conveys a seriousness of tone about life in a small western town and about the strangeness of human existence with more humanity, humor, and wonder than most anything else in print. It had no right to survive its outsize ambition, but it does, wonderfully. Read it and maybe you will know what I mean."
George Handley---Author of Home Waters: A Year of Recompenses on the Provo River
George Handley---Author of Home Waters: A Year of Recompenses on the Provo River
"Having just finished Steven Peck's excellent novel, The Scholar of Moab, I must recommend it once again, this time with a reader's full authority. I have found, though, that any time I tell anyone about it, I sound like the Stefan character from SNL who is always recommending freaky nightclubs: "This book has EVERYTHING. Alien abductions, library arson, insect torture, Wiccans, communists, Gadianton robbers, art forgery, coyote bounty hunting, a woman giving birth in the back of a pickup truck, the word "dingo" used as a verb, and a pair of conjoined twin cowboys."
Jeremy Grimshaw ---Author of Draw a Straight Line and Follow It: The Music and Mysticism of
La Monte Young and The Island of Bali Is Littered With Prayers
Jeremy Grimshaw ---Author of Draw a Straight Line and Follow It: The Music and Mysticism of
La Monte Young and The Island of Bali Is Littered With Prayers
