Tom Noyes’s Come by Here squared me up and speared me in the chest. In these masterful tales, tornadoes billow out of smokestacks, strikingly real characters stand at the crossroads of the promised land and the broken promise, God moves on the water, and the truth comes black-eyed in the Devil's night.–Glenn Taylor, author of A Hanging at Cedar Bottom

Noyes’s fiction is wonderfully wry and compassionate, and, yes, spooky.–Dan Chaon, author of Ill Will

Tom Noyes’s Behold Faith and Other Stories is dominated by macabre wit and startling confessions of frailty and delusion.–The New York Times Book Review

You can't re-imagine and reanimate a history this vividly, memorably, hilariously, and wrenchingly without knowing it, understanding it, deep in your bones. You can't do it without being a writer of dazzling gifts, either. The Substance of Things Hoped For is, quite simply, a brilliant novel. It's one of the best I’ve read this year.—Clare Beams, author of The Illness Lesson