Between Here and the Yellow Sea Hardcover - 2006

Media reviews

“Pizzolatto, like the great Richard Ford, is drawn increasingly to sad, even grim scenarios depicting the way people fail to connect. And, also like Ford, he expresses their dissatisfaction in precise language, drawing readers into perfectly realized, frequently unconventional scenarios…These sad, beautifully rendered stories will resonate with fans of the form.”
— Booklist

"This collection is first-rate, and Pizzolatto is going to be wowing us for a long, long time to come."
–Steve Yarbrough author of Prisoners of War

“This is a wonderful book of stories by a natural writer. Nic’s beautiful, lucid prose seems to flow like water or like music....Nic knows how to write in the marrow of his bones. This will be the first of many brilliant books. Hooray for talent, that rare and lovely gift of the gods.”
–Ellen Gilchrist, author of Victory Over Japan and Nora Jane

“Pizzolatto’s powerful fiction harkens back to the golden age of short stories when O’Connor and the rest were working. He possesses an apparently unlimited imagination and the narrative skills to bring it to bear.”
–William Gay, author of Provinces of Night

“These are bold, tender, and intelligent stories. Nic Pizzolatto writes about people who don't take loss lightly; they fight it. Whether searching for a disappeared daughter or underground son or for their own abandoned illusions, Pizzolatto's characters try to retrieve and recover their bets. That they rarely succeed doesn't matter. Interesting and beautiful things happen in Between Here and the Yellow Sea.”
–Molly Giles, author of Iron Shoes

“These stories are violent, sad, and beautiful. They hang around long after you've read them, like a long kiss, or a bruise.”
–Daniel Wallace, author of Big Fish and Ray in Reverse