Sea Of Hooks: A Novel

Sea of Hooks is one of the most celebrated fiction debuts of recent years.

​Winner: 2014 PEN Center USA Fiction Award. / ​Winner: 2015 Independent Publisher Gold IPPY for Literary Fiction / Winner: ​​2016 Dactyl Foundation Literary Fiction Award / Finalist: 2014 Oregon Book Award / Finalist: The 2015 Chautauqua Prize / Top 10 Book of the Year in New York Magazine and Publishers Weekly

"I can't think of any other contemporary piece of writing that takes us as deeply into the human soul as this mysterious and powerful book."—Paul Hoover, author of The Novel: A Poem, and editor of Postmodern American Poetry

"Nearly every paragraph astonishes, every moment rich with magic and daring. Reminiscent of Robert Pirsig and Hermann Hesse in its concern with authenticity, Sea of Hooks also has the unbearable anguish of Kafka's diaries—making for an unforgettable trip."--Publishers Weekly ​

"Sea of Hooks is brilliant. Mr. Hill, a sometime-banker and longtime poet, spent twenty years writing Sea of Hooks, a novel so audacious, so intricately constructed, that it was a reading experience unlike any I’ve ever had. And it completely reinvents the bildungsroman in the process. . . .It’s a novel that proves that the complexities of one young man’s daily life, his preoccupations and his nightmares, and above all, his compassion, can be extraordinarily fascinating, suspenseful, and revelatory."--Carolyn Oliver, Rosemary and Reading Glasses