Reviews for Soda Lake

“At once a metaphysical, Lynchian pursuit and a meditation on being and nothingness, Soda Lake is an eerie, baroque dream. John C Hampsey has fashioned a strange and tantalizing novel.” - Stewart O’Nan, author of The Speed Queen and City of Secrets.

“In his new novel--Soda Lake, from its Hitchcockian opening scene to its hallucinatory conclusion, John Hampsey—author of Paranoia and Contentment and Kaufman’s Hill—continues to do what he does best: narrating through a series of “evolving epiphanies,” those existential moments that unmask our false selves only to reveal a new way of being that just keeps unfolding into radically new manifestations-- taking the narrative, the protagonist, the reader, and yes, even the author, into startlingly unexpected worlds of shifting perceptions, and brilliant emanations.” -Robert Inchausti, author of Subversive Orthodoxy: Thomas Merton’s American Prophecy and other works.