"Gripping from page one, Away from Everywhere is
a finely crafted novel from one of the most talented young writers
to come out of Newfoundland in recent years."
- Kenneth J. Harvey,
Internationally bestselling author
of Inside and Blackstrap
Hawco
"This emotionally wrenching story
made me cry. It also made me lament not having written it …. His
writing is both articulate and lyrical … A fascinating and tender
portrait of a soul in torment."
- M.T. Dohaney, award-winning
author of The Corrigan Women
"With six lifetimes worth of blood,
violence, delusion and broken love, this is no redemption story,
and will not give you sweet dreams."
- Kathleen Winter, award-winning
author of boYs
"It is a book that will continue to
call you back to it … a book you could read many times over … a
book that requires a lot of pauses. Pauses to think, reflect,
discuss, and most importantly, breathe. Pelley's great talent lies
with his descriptions … the attention to detail continues
throughout the novel.
- Kathleen
Spencer, Ryerson Free Press
"Chad Pelley's first novel explores
the nature of mistakes alongside the devastating errors of human
choice. What shines from this novel is Pelley's ability to convey
his lead character's pain and inner turmoil; his misery lifts real
from the page. We should look forward to the honing and unfolding
of this writer's evolving voice."
- Bruce Johnson, Atlantic
Books Today
"Complex themes woven tightly
together … this is a story about brothers, a story of families,
entwined and unbound. It is a story of longing, and romance. And it
is a story of consequence. There is a streamlined dynamic to the
structure and the prose, as riveting and inevitible as a car flying
off the wet highway. And the structure is tightly built as a
racecar chasis. [A] very good book."
- Joan Sullivan, The
Telegram
"Brilliantly crafted through
thought provoking sentence structure Away from Everywhere will make
any reader believe they are one with what they are reading … [a]
masterpiece."
- Ivana
Pelisek, Interoobang
"It opens up in the aftermath of a
car crash, and does not let up from that brutal, mid-crisis
opening. Awayfrom Everywhere is dotted with slamming phones,
speeches regretted after-the-fact, and the pain of
silences."
- Ashley Fitzpatrick, The
Telegram
"Chad Pelley's new novel is a
beautiful bruising experience … There is humor in these pages as
well as tragedy and deep humanity, all tied together with great
storytelling. Read it."
-Samuel Martin, Dark Art
Cafe
"Award-winning short story scribe
Chad Pelley has gone all-out in his first full-length
novel Away From Everywhere … [a] stunning and
somber portrait of the family ties that can both bind us and tear
us apart."
- Stephen Clare, The
Chronicle Herald
"From word one, a description of a bloody and harrowing
car accident, there is such a volume of tragedy in Chad Pelley's
ambitious debut novel, it feels dense and weighty, like a Paul
Haggis movie script... where the novel succeeds is in expressing
Owen's interior pain, his wine-sopping self-destruction-not an easy
feat. Pelley is a gifted writer-who, no doubt, we will hear a lot
from in the future."
-Sean Flinn, The
Coast