I Will Not Leave You Comfortless: A Memoir

Praise for I Will Not Leave You Comfortless"Jeremy Jackson's swirling memoir is built upon layers of well-chosen detail-it remembers the weather, the geography, the history of plowed earth, the coal-smoke taste of coffee, and the aching love between the lines of handwritten letters. The result is like peering through a new lens at a familiar hillside, or walking through the pastures of your childhood and discovering they were bigger, not smaller, than you recall. Bigger, not smaller-now that is the mark of a generous writer.?-Leif Enger, author of Peace Like a River"Jeremy Jackson writes about Missouri as the young Hemingway wrote about Michigan: with a clear eye, with hard-edged nostalgia, and (here's the thing) with brilliance. I was going to add that I Will Not Leave You Comfortless reads like fiction, because it's well designed-but it doesn't read exactly like fiction. And maybe it's because every word of it is absolutely, searingly true.? -Darin Strauss, author of Chang and Eng"In its openness, its lucidity, its leaps of empathy and its quiet perfectionism, this is one of the most daring and affecting memoirs I've read.? -Kevin Brockmeier, author of The Brief History of the Dead