David Kranes

Making the Ghost Dance David Kranes

Objects easily appear and disappear in Peck s hands, and so do people. Into the void, the young magician writes on a sheet of paper. What s supposed to happen doesn t and What s not supposed to happen does. That s all the sense he can make of life, and the uncertainty produces hilarious results. The theory of failed expectations if you can t control the outcome, then roll with it. And roll he does, all the way to Puerto Villarta, Corfu, and Paris letting life come to him rather than searching for the divination of secrets. In the end, he finds both.

For the record, I am in this book and you are in this book. When they make the movie, it s going to feature everybody. David Kranes writes from the marrow, and this novel is fierce and crammed with heart. It s cerebral and cinematic, and if feels like all of Kranes prose like something new and something old. A man loves his life in the ways he can, and Peck s ways are rich. I would say this book is about family and love and time. But it isn t about something, it is something! If I were with you now, I d put it in your hand. Wait, fortune, it has already appeared! So, now you ll see what I mean. Ron Carlson, author of A Kind of Flying."