- Reviews/Honors -
CLASS A Reviews and Honors
** NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2013 BY THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE AND COMPLEX MAGAZINE
** FINALIST FOR THE CASEY AWARD
** BARNES & NOBLE DISCOVER GREAT NEW WRITERS SELECTION
Kirkus Reviews (Starred review)
“This is a hard-hitting examination of minor league baseball and some of the major issues of life in small-town America. In this compelling book Mann seeks to humanize not only the players but also the fans who comprise the family of this small-town field of dreams. Overshadowing much of the story is the decline of Clinton, a once proud, mighty union town… At bottom, this work examines honestly, seriously, and at times comically dreams dashed, dreams deferred, and perhaps dreams yet to be realized. Like a mixture of Bull Durham, American Gothic, a Coen brothers film, and a Springsteen song." —The Library Journal (Starred review)
LORD FEAR Reviews & Honors
**NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2015 BY THE MIAMI HERALD, KIRKUS REVIEWS, PAPER MAGAZINE, LARGEHEARTED BOY, AND OPRAH.COM
The Chicago Tribune
NPR
The San Francisco Chronicle.
The Miami Herald
The Paris Review
New York Magazine
Esquire
The Los Angeles Review of Books
The Providence Journal
Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)
Publishers Weekly
"Lord Fear is not a biography or an elegy or a even a memoir so much as it is a meditation on the function of grace, proof that love can defy all logic, transcend facts or even reality itself until it is almost indistinguishable from faith...Mann proves himself one of the most talented young nonfiction writers working today." —The Miami Herald