"Martin Marten" is a joyous celebration of the complexities of life told by a master storyteller. You will want to share it with your family and friends. "Neil Abramson, author of Unsaid" "Martin Marten" is a daring and delightful creation. As well as any novelist working today, Brian Doyle blends animal and human kingdoms into a seamless hopeful narrative overflowing with the wonderment of life. So artfully does he weave the feelings and impulses of his imagined people and wildlife that Doyle himself must be half-man, half-critter. "Martin Marten "should be required reading for all humans. Jim Lynch, author of the novels Truth Like the Sun, Border Songs, and The Highest Tide Brian Doyle's gorgeous new novel is a hypnotic, luxurious journey through our natural world--a mind-bending celebration of how sweet each day can be. Martin Marten is composed with musical prose and sparkling, quirky characters who remind us that humanity is still capable of great good, and bliss might well lie just beyond our own back doors. A modern day Siddhartha set in the lush Pacific Northwest, Martin Marten awakens readers to the interconnected worlds that define the landscape of one glorious mountain, and the common boundaries of its infinite souls. Carol Cassella, author of Gemini Behold a tale both wonderful and wise about the mysteries of adolescence, the interconnectedness of the natural world, and the nature of existence itself. Insightful, heartwarming, and beautifully written, Brian Doyle's" Martin Marten" will have you cheering for characters across the species divide. Brian Payton, author of The Wind Is Not a River"