Books

“Light has delivered his noirish sensibilities with gusto and a fluid linguistic facility that boosts the book above mere thriller-dom." —Boulder Daily Camera

“This sinuous narrative works neatly, both as a gripping novel and a solid meditation on identity.” —Kirkus Reviews

2019 Longlist for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize

“Wonderful collection about some rough-ass lives—this dude is the real deal." —Junot Diaz, Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”

[Light] probes beneath complex layers of what it means to be alive, revealing the occasionally magnificent terrain of selfhood."
—Foreword Reviews

Winner 2010 Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction

“Light's prose is careful, rhythmic, and economic; he deftly uses the weight of one sentence as a pendulum to push forward the next.”—KGB Bar Lit

2007 Benjamin Franklin Award for Fiction

2007 Book of the Year, Foreword Magazine