“Craig Buchner has written a strange and powerful novel, a story that flares and zooms at the reader like the meteor shower that dazzles and bewilders our heroes, Thom and Howard. For all its otherworldly aspects, Fish Cough is a story about animals trying to make sense of the chaos around, and inside them, about love as the ultimate force of disequilibrium, and the ultimate source of hope. Brilliant.”
— Steve Almond, author of All the Secrets of the World
“Fish Cough is a strikingly original fable of apocalypse that surprises by its focus on ordinary life – the way we continue to love and struggle to find meaning and connection even in the midst of the End. It rang very true to me.”
— Dan Chaon, author of Sleepwalk
“Meteorites and great fires, pet squirrels and bottle caps with secret codes, good and evil, drama and comedy, anger and grief and love, yes, mostly love, like the works of George Saunders or Lorrie Moore that depict the warped madness of these modern times as a means for us to see ourselves clearer, Craig Buchner’s Fish Cough is a wildly imaginative, deeply thoughtful, and potently-moving riot of a novel.”
— Alan Heathcock, author of VOLT and 40
“Filled with life’s complexities, Fish Cough explores human connection in a unique, well structured storyline. This book is an emotional rollercoaster and one for the inquisitive. There are times when the plot is more surreal, times to laugh and times when your heart goes out to the characters. Above all, there are moments to ponder and think about the power we place on the things around us.”
