The Blue Guide to Indiana - Reviews

"Michael Martone is a man with a mission, a fabulous inventor of history and memory, landscape and people. His quirky, magical tours hurl the reader across the borders between fact and fiction into a country of the mind where what we desire and fear fills our senses. Take the tops off your convertibles and fly! Indulge your secret curiosities! Trust The Blue Guide to Indiana to point you to some of the most delightful places on the planet."

-Melanie Rae Thon

"One of our most gifted new realists gives beautiful, uncanny voice to the ordinary. Michael Martone's work is original and important. "

-John Hawkes

"Most of The Blue Guide to Indiana is hilarious, though none of it makes much sense--unless you're from Indiana."

-San Diego Tribune

"A skilled writer, Martone is a careful and insightful observer. His imagination is rich, but his anthropological skills help make the place he describes just as real as the Indiana we dull-witted visitors might observe."

-Ruminator Review

"Like Mark Twain and Kurt Vonnegut, Martone is using a satirical eye to examine the multitude of artificial stories that we layer and layer on top of each other until they become a part of our collective myth system."

-American Book Review