"Ragged is a vivid fever dream, mixing Roald Dahl, Wes Anderson, Watership Down, and Jim Thompson. As impressive and convincing the world Irvin creates is, the real triumph is how his society of anthropomorphized beasties are more human than human. I wish I wrote this." - Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts 

"An imaginative spin on the crime fiction genre." –The New York Times

"At the heart of every crime is an unanswered human longing, and Christopher Irvin knows this well." - Nathan Ballingrud, author of Wounds and The Strange

"With its nuanced characterizations and rich setting, Ragged explores what it means to be a father and husband, a hero and a citizen in a world where hysteria reigns. It’s hard not to read Ragged as a welldrawn parable for our age. A complex, dark, and absorbing mystery that recalls the works of Richard Adams and Kathryn Lasky. I won’t soon forget it." - Kim Savage, author of Beautiful Broken Girls, After the Woods, and In Her Skin

"Irvin’s tone is lightning fast, hard-hitting, and leaves the reader breathless and shocked with the sudden and realistic portrayal of violence." - LitReactor

"Ragged boldly stakes a claim on literary territory previously mapped by Kenneth Grahame, then rewrites the map with a sophisticated literary cartography that is entirely modern, and entirely Christopher Irvin’s own. It is the work of a novelist entirely in charge of his material, and one with talent to burn. A delightful and original novel." - Michael Rowe, author of Enter, Night and Wild Fell

“An absorbing tale of mystery and longing and the dark struggles of the human condition, I was completely swept up by this anthropomorphized society.” – Diane Les Becquets, bestselling author of Breaking Wild