Deni Ellis
Béchard

"Into the Sun is a ferociously intelligent and intensely gripping portrait of the expatriate community in Kabul—the idealists, mercenaries, aid workers and journalists circling around a war offering them promises of purpose, redemption, or cash… Brilliant."

"Into the Sun is the sort of book I'm always hungry for—the serious novel in which the guns literally go off. Béchard makes me think of Graham Greene and Robert Stone, which is heady company, indeed."

"Into the Sun is a story of haunting beauty rendered from the haunting legacy of the Afghan War. In scope and skill, Béchard's portrait is reminiscent of the best works of Graham Greene and Philip Caputo."

"An ambitious novel that succeeds on all levels. It's a riveting mystery-thriller that also probes deeper into the nature of war. Into the Sun has the propulsive force of a car bomb in the bloodstream."

"We Are Dreams in the Eternal Machine confronts the infinite—and often incomprehensible—aspects of human life."

"We Are Dreams in the Eternal Machine demonstrates Béchard's skill for thoughtful, purposeful prose in full force."

"North American mythology is rife with shaky stories of theft and imperial expansionism recast as exemplary heroism. And then there's A Song From Faraway… a stunning novel-in-stories that wrestles with the legacy of our continent's fictions."

"A Song from Faraway invites readers to participate in storytelling, to move through uncertainty toward clarity. When we hover between selves, when we lead double lives, when we ask impossible questions, 'We blend with others. We glimpse what else we might become.'"