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For The Miracle Letters… The Miracle Letters of T. Rimberg is a darkly comic, extraordinary
peek into the delicate mind of a suicidal no-hoper. A modern-day Owen
Meany, T. Rimberg is a superbly crafted character: death obsessed and
soulful, resentful and ashamed, chivalrous and scruffy. In his brilliant
debut novel, Geoff Herbach parks good and evil side-by-side in the
sandbox and, with masterful confidence, allows them to figure things
out for themselves. The Miracle Letters of T. Rimberg is a wonderful trifecta—funny,
mysterious and full-hearted. From a farewell letter written to Aunt
Jemima to a quiet moment in a Polish cemetery, I laughed and ached
alongside T. Rimberg all the way through his fantastic journey. I read The Miracle Letter's of T. Rimberg and I was gobsmacked. Rimberg is worthy of both sympathy and hatred; you feel bad for him that his wife left with the kids, but you curse him for having an affair to prompt his divorce; you don't want him to die, but you question his melodrama. He's a man who tells everybody he wants to die, but might have too many interesting things to say to actually let it happen.— Ben Palosaari, City Pages (Twin Cities) "Miracle Letters" is a funny, sometimes dark and ultimately tender story about T. Rimberg...What's so inventive about this story is the way Herbach tells it... -- Mary Ann Grossman, St. Paul Pioneer Press The intense, confessional writing reads a lot like therapy on the page. And to reinforce that notion, Herbach brings in a theme constantly discussed in psychoanalysis: the idea that we are always mirroring our parents’ lives, re-experiencing what they have in fact experienced, and at the same time, trying to escape that pattern... It’s what transforms the novel, and all those suicide notes, from gimmick to meditation and what ultimately allows it to succeed. --Alicia Eler, Time Out Chicago For Electric Arc Radio and Lit 6 Project “Finally someone has succeeded in uniting literature and
rock 'n' roll…” "...reliably interesting... stories full of tongue-in-cheek literary
references and droll humor...the middle ground between...Robert Wagner
and... Joseph Conrad." "...approaching literature with the sensibility of rock promoters...
we predict (the show) will go number one with a bullet." "...the extraordinary art of literature-based, in-your-face,
live-action story-telling." "...utterly warped and brilliant humor...I've not laughed so
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