The praise just keeps coming in for What Jonah Knew by Barbara Graham!
What Jonah Knew (on sale: 7/5/22) is a psychological thriller about a seven-year-old boy who inexplicably recalls the memories of a missing twenty-two-year-old musician. Beyond that, this is a story about the fierce love that bonds mothers and sons across lifetimes. Barbara Graham has given us a work of gripping suspense, with a supernatural twist, that will mesmerize fans of Chloe Benjamin and Lisa Jewell!
Check out some of the praise below!
"Profoundly entertaining and entertainingly profound. What Jonah Knew is a celebration of the vital and powerful ties that bind us—to our children, to ourselves, and to each other—across space and time."
—Ruth Ozeki, author of The Book of Form and Emptiness
“In this captivating novel, Barbara Graham takes us straight to the heart of devastating human emotion, love, loss, and the mysteries of life and death. What Jonah Knew is a metaphysical journey wrapped up in the breathtaking pages of a psychological thriller.”
—Wendy Walker, bestselling author of All is Not Forgotten
“A spellbinding literary thriller packed with psychological suspense and profound questions about motherhood, trauma, and how death illuminates life.”
—Amy Tan, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and Where the Past Begins
“Barbara Graham is a literary alchemist. What Jonah Knew not only grabs you from the first page, it makes the mystical believable and the human predicament shine with wit, wisdom, and love.”
—Tara Brach, meditation teacher and bestselling author of Radical Acceptance and Radical Compassion
"Both a riveting mystery and a deep dive into the impact of grief, What Jonah Knew offers us not only hope but a fascinating meditation on the nature of love, identity, and reality itself.”
—JoAnne Tompkins, author of the novel What Comes After
“Barbara Graham’s shimmering novel brings new meaning to the concept of inherited family trauma and the very divide between life and death.”
—Mark Epstein MD, author of The Trauma of Everyday Life and the forthcoming The Zen of Therapy
“Barbara Graham writes with clarity, courage, and heart. What Jonah Knew shines light on complicated issues and brings the reader to a new understanding of what it means to be fully human.”
—Molly Giles, author of Rough Translations and Wife with Knife, and winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction
"I love What Jonah Knew. As a Buddhist teacher and a reincarnation skeptic I was delighted to find that having read the first page, I read it straight through cheering the book's wit and complexity, and wondering, after all, who knows?”
—Sylvia Boorstein, meditation teacher and author of It’s Easier Than You Think: The Buddhist Way to Happiness
“Barbara Graham is a rare talent who blends comic brilliance with psychological and spiritual insight. What Jonah Knew plumbs the depths of the human heart while ingeniously tackling life’s hardest questions.”
—Mark Matousek, bestselling author of Sex Death Enlightenment
Phew! So much praise, so little time. All we can say is the reviews about What Jonah Knew are saying what we've known all along—this book is excellent, and we can't wait for you all to read it!
You can download your copy on Edelweiss or NetGalley! Happy reading!
—The LLF Team
