Synopses & Reviews
Our Ecstatic Days begins as the memoir of a young mother desperate to forget a single act, committed out of love and fear, that has changed forever the world around her. In the waning days of summer, a lake appears, almost overnight, in the middle of Los Angeles. In an instant of either madness or revelation, convinced that the lake means to take her small son from her, Kristin becomes determined to stop it. Three thousand miles away, on the eve of a momentous event, another young woman -- with a bond to Kristin that she can't even know -- meets a mysterious figure who announces in the dark, "The Age of Chaos is here."
Against a forbidden landscape that shimmers with destiny and yearning, Our Ecstatic Days finally takes place on the terrain of a defiant heart. Human connections multiply into astonishing twists of fate -- by which the wrongs of an obsolete century may be set right -- and parallel lives spin faster toward the possibility that they will once again unite, electrifying a visionof the century to come.
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"Erickson has a voice that needs to be heard and a vision that needs to be seen."
-- Los Angeles Times Book Review
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"An absolute vision that moves fearlessly through time and across geographic boundaries. The only thing that can justify the author's arrogance is genius, which truly and fortunately Erickson has."
-- The Philadelphia Inquirer
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"A provocative visionary chronicler of a phantasmagorical America. His work is the literary equivalent of a tsunami, into which the reader must dive headlong."
-- The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
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"One of the few American writers willing to leave himself open to the truly visionary. At once a romantic and a futurist, he's willing to take risks that others aren't."
-- The Believer
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"Erickson is a gambler, one of the fabulous myth makers who are needed in these times of deprivation of the imagination."
-- The New York Times Book Review