The Residue Years

A fresh new voice in fiction

I know these characters well. I know the language they speak: voices redolent of struggle and the South displaced to our country’s far northwestern corner. A wrenchingly beautiful debut

I was touched by characters whose lives were often as real for me as my memories of growing up. The language invented to tell their stories engages, challenges, clarifies the American language, claiming it, enlarging it

A raw heartwreck of a novel … one of the fictional families I have cared about most

Beautiful sentences that mix urban slang with pitch-perfect lyricism, resulting in a new way of expressing American English - Paris Review

Jackson’s dedication to the shadows and unhappiness of his characters shines through - Publishers Weekly

A writer to be reckoned with; The Residue Years marks the beginning of a most promising career