Praise For This Book
"Malla writes as if the twin demons of Stephen King and Flannery O'Connor were resting on his shoulders. You've never read anything quite like People Park."--Amazon.ca Best Books of 2012
"A polished, confident storyteller... An invigorating mix of seriousness, humor, and candor." --
Toronto Star "Like David Foster Wallace and Rick Moody, Malla often asks painful questions, revealing equally painful truths." --
Quill & Quire "An astonishing and bizarre mix... Pasha Malla is an impressive young voice that gives one hope for a future of new Canadian writing talent." --
Globe and Mail "Malla's technical skills are...reminiscent of Munro... His handling of society's unfortunates is very Barbara Gowdy... Buy
The Withdrawal Method." --
Vue Weekly "Pasha Malla's remarkable debut collection
The Withdrawal Method is a sign (or warning) for things to come." --
The Coast "Weird and wild and wonderful. Funny, too. Pasha Malla has a deft tough." --David Bergen, author of the Scotiabank Giller Prize-wining
The Time In Between "Life is anything but ordinary in the hands of this gifted writer." --
Vancouver Sun "When I got to the last page, I wanted to flip the thing over and start right back at the beginning. I can't think of a better testament to the pleasure of reading a novel." --
AV Club "People Park is a zany and entertaining yarn . . . more than a worthy followup to
The Withdrawal Method; it's a merry microcosm." --
Winnipeg Free Press "People Park is an ambitious and complex novel, impressively rendered and fantastic to read.' --
National Post "People Park is reminiscent of Gary Shteyngart or George Saunders . . . vividly imagined . . ." --
Globe and Mail "Written in breathless prose, it's oddball fun, and Malla proves himself as a writer who never takes the easy way out." --
National Post "[
People Park] unfolds a unique and fully realized fictional universe in which the author explores themes of displacement, isolation, and reunification with flashes of dark humour." --
Quill and Quire "... an imaginative feat . . ." --Georgia Straight
"... every sentence [is] a thrill ... [in
People Park] we get a frightening picture of ourselves." --
Montreal Gazette "The novel is a cacophony of comedy and heartbreak, magical realism and satiric wit, made melodically whole through Malla's deft prose." --
Briarpatch Magazine
