Angry Nights - Reviews

"Angry Nights is the most compelling debut of fiction I've read since Denis Johnson's Angels. Fondation's characters, stripped by poverty of all pretense, exist in an inner city world where hope is constricted and joy desperate and limited. For all that, these characters persevere, continue groping for transcendence, looking for - and finding - reasons to go on. Neither sensationalistic nor unremittingly bleak, Angry Nights is engrossing and entertaining at the same time it is thoroughly horrifying. It should be read not only by those interested in the future of fiction - but by anyone interested in the future of this world."

- Richard Krawiec, author of the novel Time Sharing

"Larry Fondation hears original worlds at launderettes and the rave of demons at the park foundations. The nights are angry and so are the shadows that haunt the memories of broken promises in this exceptional novel. The interior stories uncover bullet holes, bitten nails, open sores and other common miseries with the ironic manner of a barefoot game show host. The characters are wise, and some of them are measured with a brush of violence in curt conversations. Angry Nights could cure the cruelties of silence."

-Gerald Vizenor, author of Griever: an American Monkey King in China and The Heirs of Columbus