Praise for fat man AND little boy

"Mike Meginnis is my favorite kind of writer—extraordinarily inventive, formally curious, profoundly moving—and his Fat Man and Little Boy is a debut of impressive ambition, a reinvention of the historical novel, an existential thriller powered by the booming engines of history, the atom, the human heart."— Matt Bell, author of In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods

"Beguiling, strange, and strangely lovely, Fat Man and Little Boy is a deeply sorrowful yet mysteriously empowering debut." — Patrick deWitt, author of The Sisters Brothers

"Only someone with the deftness of heart of a writer like Mike Meginnis could redefine the war novel into something like Fat Man and Little Boy, a book which translates our basic world of never-ending terror into a highly nuanced and inventive diorama available absolutely nowhere else."  — Blake Butler, author of Scorch Atlas and There is No Year

"Mike Meginnis writes with lasers. His prose is that exacting, that sharp. Every page feels crafted, shaped, almost perfect. Each sentence feels singular but also part of the whole, and the whole is something to behold. This book will unsettle you in all the best ways."  — Lindsay Hunter, author of Don't Kiss Me

"In Fat Man and Little Boy, Mike Meginnis takes the mother of all atrocities and makes it strange, sizable, turns it so sideways that we're forced to notice, to take heed. This alone is an achievement, but it's the way he does it that dazzle—with gorgeous, careful prose that gives us human failings and a desperate longing for connection so vividly rendered that we have no choice but drink it in, to reckon once again with this disaster in our own time and way."— Amber Sparks, author of May We Shed These Human Bodies

"Impressive. . . The novel straddles a hybrid genre of historical magical realism." —The Japan Times

"Meginnis's talent is his ability to make the reader feel empathy for souls who killed so many. . . Many pages in this novel feel like engravings . . . Meginnis has written one of the best, most natural novels about the atomic bombs." — Nick Ripatrazone, The Millions

"[An] imaginative debut. . . Meginnis' story is both surprising and incisive." — Publishers Weekly

"With guileless prose, Meginnis uses his two heroes to gently skewer America, the holocaust industry and war movies, which makes for a reading experience similar to being pummeled by a Mickey Mouse with giant plush hands – delightfully, perversely enjoyable. I loved every minute of it." — Cath Murphy, Lit Reactor