Industry Reviews
"A remarkable blend of mystery, family drama, love story, and time travel narrative, Jay Hosking's debut novel is masterful indeed." --Annabel Lyon, author of "The Sweet Girl" "Three Years with the Rat is a mind-warping thriller that will make you question reality as you conceive of it. One of the most assured and haunting debuts I've read in recent memory." --Blake Crouch, author of Dark Matter
"An envious debut. Memento meets Looper with a touch of Ray Bradbury. Time will slip by as you read this story . . . and that will only frighten you more." --James Renner, author of The Great Forgetting
"A remarkable blend of mystery, family drama, love story, and time travel narrative, Jay Hosking's debut novel is masterful indeed." --Annabel Lyon, author of The Sweet Girl
"An up-close and personal portrait of troubled genius, a mad scientist story for the new millennium, Hosking offers up a thought-provoking distillation of the private lives of high-achievers in a story that confronts its characters with a mysterious manifestation of their ambitions, desires, and vulnerabilities -- a compelling and unsettling book." --Lee Henderson, author of The Road Narrows As You Go
"Hosking confidently unravels time, friendship, and memory in this eerie debut novel, exposing the lies we tell to protect ourselves and the stories we use to survive." --Andrew F. Sullivan, author of Waste
"A dark and imaginative novel--Hosking is unafraid to venture into strange and undiscovered territory. Intellectually adventurous." --Charles Yu, author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
"[A] startlingly fine performance... There are probably 100 ways this novel could have failed (plausibility alone poses a real challenge), but, instead, it succeeds brilliantly, drawing us completely into a labyrinthine narrative." --Booklist (starred review)
"Hosking's time-looping tale deftly teases the reader with well-deployed reveals and intrigues...Hosking's prose is limpid and tonally sophisticated; he's a graceful wordsmith as well as a cerebral idea man...A potent, sophisticated combination of science-fiction novel and psychological thriller." --Kirkus Reviews
.".".smart and spooky...The ending pays off all the preceding buildup, pulling narrative strands together with satisfying finesse while venturing into new territory." --Publishers Weekly "Three Years with the Rat is a mind-warping thriller that will make you question reality as you conceive of it. One of the most assured and haunting debuts I've read in recent memory." Blake Crouch, author of Dark Matter
An envious debut. Memento meets Looper with a touch of Ray Bradbury. Time will slip by as you read this story . . . and that will only frighten you more. James Renner, author of The Great Forgetting
"A remarkable blend of mystery, family drama, love story, and time travel narrative, Jay Hosking's debut novel is masterful indeed." Annabel Lyon, author of The Sweet Girl
An up-close and personal portrait of troubled genius, a mad scientist story for the new millennium, Hosking offers up a thought-provoking distillation of the private lives of high-achievers in a story that confronts its characters with a mysterious manifestation of their ambitions, desires, and vulnerabilities -- a compelling and unsettling book. Lee Henderson, author of The Road Narrows As You Go
Hosking confidently unravels time, friendship, and memory in this eerie debut novel, exposing the lies we tell to protect ourselves and the stories we use to survive. Andrew F. Sullivan, author of Waste
A dark and imaginative novel Hosking is unafraid to venture into strange and undiscovered territory. Intellectually adventurous. Charles Yu, author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
"[A] startlingly fine performance... There are probably 100 ways this novel could have failed (plausibility alone poses a real challenge), but, instead, it succeeds brilliantly, drawing us completely into a labyrinthine narrative." Booklist (starred review)
" A dark and imaginative novel Hosking is unafraid to venture into strange and undiscovered territory. Intellectually adventurous.
Charles Yu, author of "How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe"
"An envious debut. "Memento" meets "Looper" with a touch of Ray Bradbury. Time will slip by as you read this story... and that will only frighten you more." James Renner, author of "The Great Forgetting"
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"A remarkable blend of mystery, family drama, love story, and time travel narrative, Jay Hosking's debut novel is masterful indeed." Annabel Lyon, author of "The Sweet Girl"
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An up-close and personal portrait of troubled genius, a mad scientist story for the new millennium, Hosking offers up a thought-provoking distillation of the private lives of high-achievers in a story that confronts its characters with a mysterious manifestation of their ambitions, desires, and vulnerabilities -- a compelling and unsettling book. Lee Henderson, author of "The Road Narrows As You Go"" "An envious debut. "Memento" meets "Looper" with a touch of Ray Bradbury. Time will slip by as you read this story... and that will only frighten you more." James Renner, author of "The Great Forgetting"
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"A remarkable blend of mystery, family drama, love story, and time travel narrative, Jay Hosking's debut novel is masterful indeed." Annabel Lyon, author of "The Sweet Girl"
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An up-close and personal portrait of troubled genius, a mad scientist story for the new millennium, Hosking offers up a thought-provoking distillation of the private lives of high-achievers in a story that confronts its characters with a mysterious manifestation of their ambitions, desires, and vulnerabilities -- a compelling and unsettling book. Lee Henderson, author of "The Road Narrows As You Go""
