Review in the San Francisco Chronicle

The San Francisco Chronicle has an excellent review of FEAST DAYS this weekend. 

From Chris Feliciano Arnold's review:

"Ian MacKenzie's elegant second novel, FEAST DAYS, is a story about love and power, luxury and empire, set in one of the most socially stratified countries on the planet. . . . MacKenzie's economy is remarkable. Using thin brushstrokes, inventive turns of phrase, and fragmentary, dialogue-heavy sections, he deftly captures how an outsider is only able to comprehend a country in pieces, assembling an incomplete puzzle over time. What holds this portrait of a marriage together, across time and across continents, is Emma's voice. Wry and melancholy, she is a sensitive weather vane to the changing winds of her own relationships, and to the storm brewing in a country that she wants desperately to make sense of . . . MacKenzie's novel feels heavier than many novels twice its weight . . . FEAST DAYS is as much about America as it is about Brazil."

You can read the entire review here.

There are also kind mentions of FEAST DAYS in the Opal Club's March Books We Read (here) and DC Refined's 10 Great Books to Devour This Spring (here).

Praise in Entertainment Weekly and the New York Post

In its March 30 issue, Entertainment Weekly calls Feast Days "highly anticipated" and says that it "poignantly contrasts the political breakdown of Brazil with the marital breakdown of a pair of expatriates," while this week the New York Post called it a "must-read."

Feast Days excerpt up on Literary Hub

Literary Hub, the wonderful books website, has an excerpt from FEAST DAYS up today, from a chapter in the middle of the book called "Proto-Romance." You can find it here.

Feast Days is out now!

FEAST DAYS is out -- please support your awesome independent local bookstores! (It's also available from all major online booksellers.)

In addition, FEAST DAYS was featured in a few more spring book round-ups, here, here, and here.

NY Times and Entertainment Weekly

You can find FEAST DAYS on the New York Times' list of "must-know literary events of 2018" (here) and Entertainment Weekly's "new books to read in March" (here).

4th Estate to publish Feast Days in the U.K.

Feast Days will be published in the United Kingdom by 4th Estate on July 26.

Starred review in Publisher's Weekly

FEAST DAYS received its first pre-publication notice, a starred and boxed review in Publisher's Weekly.

From the review:

"No one could accuse the heroine of MacKenzie’s second novel (after City of Strangers) of leading an unexamined life, and the wit with which she conducts that examination elevates this brilliant work. . . . There is no cataclysm but rather a pervasive sense of unrest, both large and small scale, social and personal, conveyed in MacKenzie’s unruffled, discerning prose. With it, MacKenzie has captured one of the most memorable narrative voices in recent fiction."

Read the full review here.

Feast Days: Coming March 2018

FEAST DAYS is scheduled for publication in March 2018 from Little, Brown and Company.