"2008 pulled me in from its very first pages and then never let me go. By the final act, I found myself devouring it faster than I even wanted to, totally engrossed, addicted, so under the book's spell, it was all I wanted to spend time with. I can't wait to recommend it, to shove it in people's hands, to talk about it with others who found themselves awed by it."

Aaron Burch, author of Year of the Buffalo

"For a novel of such an exquisitely particular moment, 2008 manages to be profoundly and shockingly prescient. Hilarious and devastating, with hometown heroes and forever-outsiders whose decisions and fates feel both constantly surprising and inevitable, McCarty somehow knits together Middle America, jaded urbanites, bloggers, the publishing industry, adolescence, late-early adulthood, climate change, capitalism, and then-and-now into one of the most prismatic contemporary American novels I’ve encountered in years. I found in these pages everything I want but rarely hope for in a single text, and while I won’t pretend to know what other readers are looking for when they reach for a book, I suspect they, too, will find it here."

Xhenet Aliu, author of Everybody Says It's Everything.