“Téa Obreht never disappoints.”—Esquire
“A Cessna plane crashes into a Wyoming lake and a young woman staggers out, uninjured. As she searches for her missing boyfriend she stumbles into an abandoned, pristine mining town where a pair of conjoined mysteries await, unraveling her sense of time and place.”—The Boston Globe
“This triple-timeline story that asks: Who writes history, and what do they have to hide?”—Good Housekeeping
“Obreht’s latest novel is an unputdownable, metafictional, and nimble page-turner . . . The book’s structure is part of its pleasure, as is Obreht’s uncanny ability to write convincingly, it seems, about everything and everywhere and everyone, her precise, generous prose like being dunked into a new reality.”—Literary Hub
“I’ve loved every book Téa Obreht has written but I might love this one the most. It’s tense and beautifully constructed, and it features Obreht’s signature precision when it comes to both language and emotion. Please put this book into the hands of everyone you know.”—Liz Moore, New York Times bestselling author of The God of the Woods
“Sunrise is thrilling and ingenious. In her new novel, Obreht explores this country’s troubled past, its gaps and silences, and the rich history that only new storytellers can excavate.”—Laila Lalami, bestselling author of The Dream Hotel
“Sunrise is everything you could wish for from a storyteller of Obreht’s caliber: a witty, propulsive tale of survival, a spirited reckoning with the ambivalences of American life, a deep dive into the secret histories of the West. Spellbinding and ingeniously crafted, this novel deepens Obreht’s reputation as one of our moment’s most original bards and shows the power of story to orient, investigate, and illuminate.”—Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine and Something New Under the Sun
“A Wyoming ghost town provides the stage for this spectacular novel from Obreht about the enduring myths of the Wild West . . . Obreht employs impressive restraint, providing just enough clues to create intrigue as the reader pieces together the connections between the three storylines . . . it careens to an explosive climax. Readers will have a blast.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review
“[Obreht] delivers a virtuoso performance. In her hands, these three narratives aren’t just satisfying on their own. They illuminate each other in ways that are both elegant and emotionally deep . . . An adventurous, rewarding novel from a writer who just gets better and better.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review
“Obreht is riveting in each time frame as she exults in emulating and subverting tales of the Old West while exposing the poisonous complexities of gender, taboo love, myth, history, and our desecration of the wild in a breathtaking, shocking, and reverberating survival story.”—Booklist, starred review
