You Can See More From Up Here - by Mark Guerin (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>In 2004, when Walker Maguire is called to the deathbed of his estranged father, his thoughts return to 1974 when he witnessed a bloody fight falsely blamed on a Mexican immigrant. Lies snowballed into betrayals, leading to a lifelong rift between father and son that can only be mended by the past coming back to life and revealing its long-held secrets.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>In 2004, when middle-aged Walker Maguire is called to the deathbed of his estranged father, his thoughts return to 1974. He'd worked that summer at the auto factory where his dad, an unhappily retired Air Force colonel, was employed as plant physician. Witness to a bloody fight falsely blamed on a Mexican immigrant, Walker kept quiet, fearing his white co-workers and tyrannical father. Lies snowball into betrayals, leading to a life-long rift between father and son that can only be mended by the past coming back to life and revealing its long-held secrets. <em>You Can See More From Up Here</em> is a coming-of-age tale about the illusion of privilege and the power of the past to inform and possibly heal the present.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>Guerin beautifully captures the powerful contradictions of the relationship between father and son, which combines elements of friendship and antagonism. He gradually discloses Walker's epiphanies about his dad, which transform the protagonist's personal opinion of him and the future arc of his own life. The prose is confident and confessional; Guerin draws the reader in by having Walker unflinchingly reveal his sense of disappointment in himself. Like the journalist he is, Walker clamors for the truth, whether it's consoling or not. A poignantly told story of ruminative remembrance.-- <strong>Kirkus Review</strong></p><p>Mark Guerin's fully-realized debut novel asks important questions about how little of our lives -- and the relationships, incidents, and structural forces that form them -- we allow ourselves to see. This is a sensitive, clear-eyed, unsentimental story about flawed people who compel us to look more closely at their choices as well as our own. -- <strong>Christopher Castellani</strong>, author of <em>Leading Men</em></p><p>In <em>You Can See More From Up Here</em>, Mark Guerin captures with evocative clarity both a unique time and place in American life and the complex emotional bonds of family and community that can tear and heal over a lifetime. It's rare and exciting to find such self-assured prose, raw honesty and unwavering momentum in a first novel. I just loved it. For anyone who has struggled with identity, purpose, integrity, righteousness and self-doubt in the face of an overbearing parent, <em>You Can See More From Up Here</em> offers familiarity, clarity, and for all of the complex emotions explored, a sense of satisfaction.-- <strong>Danny Rubin</strong>, writer of the movie and Broadway musical, <em>Groundhog Day</em></p><p><em>You Can See More From Up Here</em> does what all great novels do, smartly evoking a forgotten time and place, tugging at the heart strings of our seemingly innocent desires and relationships, and forcing us to confront our culpabilities as a protagonist confronts his own. This is a book that explores a troubled relationship between father and son, but it is also a book about power, about race, privilege and the failings we inherit. Guerin achieves all this with great tenderness and an impressive command of story and time. -- <strong>Michelle Hoover</strong>, author of <em>Bottomland</em></p><p>Alternating between [1974 and 2004], the book examines the dichotomy of a strict father and his conscientious son, both products of their respective times. Its mood is retrospective at first, as Walker reconciles his dying father with the disciplinarian he knew. Sections from the past soon envelope the book, though, and are meticulous and absorbing in their details. By working toward doing the noble thing and making amends, Walker helps his father confront his own internal dilemmas. The book's end is cathartic, bringing all of the emotional subplots to a head. Racial issues are handled with honesty. Mark Guerin's debut maneuvers through heartbreak with grace, navigating family expectations, a community's pervasive racism, and how peoples' actions shape others' opinions. -- <strong>Forward Reviews</strong> </p><p><em>You Can See More From Up Here</em> is an achingly real and thought-provoking novel about a son's quest to understand his troubled father and the long-ago summer that changed both of their lives. [It} vividly evokes the toxic behavior that keeps fathers from making genuine emotional connections with their sons, and the violence and bigotry lurking beneath the surface of a seemingly normal family.-- <strong>Emily Ross</strong>, author of <em>Half in Love with Death</em></p><br>
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