The Mirage week two recap

This week’s highlight reel:

Reviews

• The Oregonian — “It’s bracing to read a novel that generates a fresh look at Our Troubled Times without the exhausted polemics and manipulative sentiments. In fact, The Mirage is a 9/11 novel we’ve been waiting for, audacious, funny and bold.”
• The Kitsap Sun — “The Mirage is a shimmering tour de force — an entertainment, a contemplation, and an indictment, all rolled into one.”
• BookPage — “It’s no easy task to recreate the universe in its own, if slightly distorted, image, yet Ruff has succeeded handily, dizzying and dazzling the reader with a fantastic—and fantastical—story.”
• The Brown Tweed Society — “Characters worth caring about, real tension and suspense, and a wildly unexpected resolution…”
• The Authors Speak — “Rarely do I call a book ‘transcendent’, but this one may be just that.”

Essays and Interviews

• Profile/interview for the Seattle Weekly‘s Spring Arts issue
• Interview for Portland indie bookstore Murder by the Book
• Guest blog post for the Seattle Mystery Bookshop

Other mentions

• Foxmeadow Creative blog — “Judging books by their covers“

Scorekeeping

• #9 on the Pacific Northwest Independent bestseller list for February 12, 2012
• #3 on the Elliott Bay Book Company bestseller list for February 19,2012

Week one highlights here.