“Garth Stein has exposed a sadness and a strength in Evan, a self-appointed screw-up who endeavors to raise a 14-year-old son he’s just met. A raw but sympathetic portrayal of family flaws and individual shortcomings, How Evan Broke His Head and Other Secrets is a beautifully un-shiny novel of passion, forgiveness and the life force …
In the spring of 2005 I was just a few weeks on the job with the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association when we hosted our spring tradeshow, in Seattle. One of my duties over the course of the three-day show was to host an afternoon event called the Author Reading Room. Among the six authors scheduled …
“Before Garth Stein made it big with The Art of Racing in the Rain, before he published How Evan Broke His Head and Other Secrets, there was this odd, mysterious, fascinating novel, published when Stein was a young sapling of a writer, then disappearing from bookstores for fourteen years and just re-released. Rougher around the edges than his other two, …
