"In this extraordinary novel, Castleberry brilliantly hopscotches from person to person, from era to era, while somehow making all this fancy footwork look effortless and essential."
- Jenny Offill, author of Department of Speculation and Weather

“Sharply-tuned, funny, satisfyingly strange, and preternaturally poised, unspooling in immaculate prose. Brian Castleberry has that rare, can’t-be-taught ability to turn smoothly at any point in any direction, giving each sentence, no matter how casual, a quiet current of electric suspense.”
- William Finnegan, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Barbarian Days

"Impressive... Memorable characters inhabit a surprising, engaging story of American idealism and its dark opposite."
- Kirkus Reviews

“Scrappy and smart, intently observed and often darkly funny, these people navigate lives where everyday struggle and pleasure ride precariously on a deep undercurrent of menace.”- Chelsey Johnson, author of Stray City
"The truly shining objects are the nine stories that make up this gripping, shapeshifting novel. A debut out of this world."
- Hernan Diaz, author of In the Distance

"When, in 1947, a Navy pilot reports that he’s seen nine shiny objects flying over the Cascade Mountains, he sets off a chain reaction that affects nine characters, whose lives intersect in remarkable ways over the course of the following four decades. What Castleberry has written is not a novel about UFOs or cults or rock-and-roll but rather a literary saga that dauntlessly explores what it takes to believe."
​- Rachel Beanland, author of Florence Adler Swims Forever