This was a fantastic and heartfelt little book that I didn’t expect to love as much as I did.

Following two tortoises from the beginning to end of the world their stories are mediated through the people who care for and journey with them.

I enjoyed the fragmentation and non-linear nature of the story as we are given different perspectives of the same events throughout. Each perspective felt unique and interesting. The concept of the Seekers was very well done and a clever thread to hold such an expansive narrative together.

I even got all teary at the very end. Lazarus and Little Lazarus will be in my thoughts for a long time yet.

I will definitely be reading Michael Bible’s other works after this one, I loved it!

What a wild ride of a little novel! Michael Bible is one of our greats. What he does here, not only on a story-level, but one a craft-level, how he smoothly manages various perspectives + characters, is staggering. The novel loosely charts the life of Little Lazarus, a tortoise named after another tortoise, and the web of characters who come across him in one way or another. The scope here is magnificent (quite literally starting with the birth of the universe). So good. Thanks to the publisher for the e-galley!